On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:18:23AM +1000, Amit Saha wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I want my program to report an error if anything other than a number
>> which I can then convert to float using float() is entered as input:
>>
>> # Python 3
>> try:
>> a = float(input('Enter a number: '))
>>
>> except ValueError:
>> print('Wrong input')
>> else:
>> print('Right input')
>>
>>
>> This seems to do the job for me.
> [...]
>> I have two queries:
>>
>> - Is this the best way to do this?
>> - Is this is the easiest way to tell a beginner to do this? (Even
>> though it introduces try..except)
>
> Yes, and yes.
>
>
Thank you Joel and Steven.
Best,
Amit.
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