def HTMLColorToPILColor(colorstring):
    """ converts #RRGGBB to PIL-compatible integers"""
    colorstring = colorstring.strip()
    while colorstring[0] == '#': colorstring = colorstring[1:]
    # get bytes in reverse order to deal with PIL quirk
    colorstring = colorstring[-2:] + colorstring[2:4] + colorstring[:2]
    # finally, make it numeric
    color = int(colorstring, 16)
    return color
 converts #RRGGBB to PIL-compatible integers
recipes/Python/266466_HTML_colors_tofrom_RGB_tuples/recipe-266466.py