N00b question alert! I did a search for isdigit() in the group discussion, and it didn't look like the question had been asked in the first 2 pages, so sorry if it was...
The manual documentation says: "isdigit( ) Return true if all characters in the string are digits and there is at least one character, false otherwise. For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent. " So it makes sense that something like 5.6 would return false. But what if we want to make sure that our string is a valid number, ie decimals included? I know how to write a regexp or method or whatever to do this, my main question is *why* something like an isNumber() method is not baked into the class. Does such functionality exist somewhere else in the standard library that I'm just missing? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
