> As I have mentioned above, EAFP is fine but you have to apply it twice. 
> str.float accomplishes the same with 1 line of code.
> num = float(s) if s.float() else int(s)

There is a typo in my reply as quoted: it should be .isfloat() and not .float() 
.
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