From 2d4aa4f5d43842bc049752ab8d5ffa3d2880cbe6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1992 22:33:41 +0000
Subject: Removed *.libs (now in ./sgi); added gettext() method to TextEdit.py;
 fixed string.atoi() to ignore leading zeros.

---
 Lib/stringold.py | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'Lib/stringold.py')

diff --git a/Lib/stringold.py b/Lib/stringold.py
index cfb977fcc3..94e91570c5 100644
--- a/Lib/stringold.py
+++ b/Lib/stringold.py
@@ -102,12 +102,16 @@ def index(s, sub):
 # Convert string to integer
 atoi_error = 'non-numeric argument to string.atoi'
 def atoi(str):
+	sign = ''
 	s = str
-	if s[:1] in '+-': s = s[1:]
+	if s[:1] in '+-':
+		sign = s[0]
+		s = s[1:]
 	if not s: raise atoi_error, str
+	while s[0] == '0' and len(s) > 1: s = s[1:]
 	for c in s:
 		if c not in digits: raise atoi_error, str
-	return eval(str)
+	return eval(sign + s)
 
 # Left-justify a string
 def ljust(s, width):
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