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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def HuntIDToInt(hunt_id):
 """Convert hunt id string to an integer."""

  # TODO(user): This code is only needed for a brief period of time when we
  # allow running new rel-db flows with old aff4-based hunts. In this scenario
  # parent_hunt_id is effectively not used, but it has to be an
  # integer. Stripping "H:" from hunt ids then makes the rel-db happy. Remove
  # this code when hunts are rel-db only.
  if hunt_id.startswith("H:"):
    hunt_id = hunt_id[2:]

  try:
    return int(hunt_id or "0", 16)
  except ValueError as e:
    raise HuntIDIsNotAnIntegerError(e)