If the end goal is to just get either a float or an int from a string, and
you want to only accept floats the way Python spells them, what about using
ast.literal_eval?
>>> type(ast.literal_eval('1'))
<class 'int'>
>>> type(ast.literal_eval('1.0'))
<class 'float'>
>>> type(ast.literal_eval('01_105e-3'))
<class 'float'>
On Sun, Oct 3, 2021 at 1:31 AM Debashish Palit <dpali...@outlook.com> wrote:
> There are plenty of use cases if you pause to think. The other objections
> are trivial. Even the simplest usage with the input() function is enough to
> warrant its inclusion, considering that there are other useless string
> methods.
>
> As I have had no support for the past few days, I quit the discussion.
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