Bernard Lebel wrote: > Hello, > > Let say I have a string. The value of the string might be 'False', > 'True', '3', '1.394', or whatever else. Is there a quick way to > convert this string into the appropriate data type other than with > try/except?
There is a nice solution here: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/5ead7dae977ed990?hl=en& It doesn't avoid the try/except but it wraps it up real pretty :-) Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor