How do I not raise a Python exception when converting an integer-as-string to an int

Question

I have some HTML I am trying to parse. There are cases where the html attributes alone are not going to help me identify the row type (header versus data). Fortunately, if my

Answer 1

Have you looked at the try statement?

try:
    x = int(rowColumn[1][3].replace(',','').strip('$'))
except ValueError, e:
    x = None # rowColumn[1][3] was not an integer