Question

I would like to make my program convert strs into ints in that once that str is spotted at any instance python recognises it as an int number.

str('C') = 1
str('5') = 5

thanks

Answer 1

The Python built-in int() function converts strings to integers:

>>> int('5')
5

However, 'C' is not a (decimal) integer and will throw an error from int():

>>> int('C')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'C'