It's generally a bad idea to use "except" without naming a specific
exception. The exception you might expect in this case is ValueError.
Any other exception *should* be uncaught if it happens. By the way, this
method will return true for integers as well as floats. For example,
isFloat('3') wi
To paraphrase this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJOS0sV2a24)
(which is the Randall Munroe, author of the famous xkcd
(http://www.xkcd.com/), giving a talk at Google), "you just type the
pseudo-code and it runs! And as someone said, if Python is executable
pseudo-code, then Perl is exec
You're actually calling the read2() function from within read2(). This
is called recursion, and it is *not* what you want in this case, since
it unnecessarily fills up your call stack. Remember that a while loop
automatically goes back to the top without you having to re-call your
function. I w
