Philip Semanchuk schrieb: > > On Feb 15, 2009, at 12:46 PM, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote: > >> What's the Pythonic way to determine if a string is a number? By >> number I mean a valid integer or float. > > > try: > int(number) > is_an_int = True > except: > is_an_int = False
Please don't teach new Python developers to use bare excepts. In fact never use bare excepts at all! Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list