def toDecimal(n, base=2):
    """Convert integers from any base to dec"""
    rawr, p, converted, answer, m = [], 0, 0, 0, 0
    if not n:
        print "no arguments given"
    if (type(n) != int):
        print "can't convert non integers dumbass"
    if (base is 16 or 8):
        working = str(n)[::-1]
        limit = len(working)
        while not converted:
            while (p < limit):
                workingint = int(working[p])
                workingint = workingint*base**p
                rawr.append(workingint)
                p = p + 1
            for i in rawr:
                m = (i+answer)
                answer = m
            converted = 1
        print answer
    if (base is 2):
        pass

toDecimal(2345, 8)