On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Marco <marc...@nsgmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, because > > "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it", > > there should be a difference between the two methods in the subject, but I > can't find it: > >>>> '123'.isdecimal(), '123'.isdigit() > (True, True) >>>> print('\u0660123') > ٠123 >>>> '\u0660123'.isdigit(), '\u0660123'.isdecimal() > (True, True) >>>> print('\u216B') > Ⅻ >>>> '\u216B'.isdecimal(), '\u216B'.isdigit() > (False, False) > > Can anyone give me some help?
Here's one example: >>> '\u00B2'.isdecimal() False >>> '\u00B2'.isdigit() True >>> '\u00B2' '²' The distinction is explained in the docs at: http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/stdtypes.html#str.isdigit Cheers, Ian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list