How to convert 007898989 to 7898989 in Python -

i trying convert 007898989 7898989 in python using following code:

long(007898989)

however leads following error:

>>> long(007898989)   file "<stdin>", line 1     long(007898989)                  ^ syntaxerror: invalid token

how can convert number correctly?

indeed, doing this:

a = 007898989

will raise error syntaxerror: invalid token, easiest way convert long be:

on python 2

a = long("007898989") print

trying cast on python 3 give nameerror: name 'long' not defined, so, i'd best solution below one

on python 2/3

a = int("007898989") print(a)

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