On Mar 11, 2:24 am, rockingred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the case where dots are used as a date separator, count the number > of dots (you should also count commas). If a single comma appears and > is preceeded by only numbers or numbers with decimals, assume "foreign > float".
Bzzzzt. 1,234 is the integer 1234 to John, and its only a float to Jean if Jean is not a Scots lass :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
