In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This doesn't cater for negative integers. > > > No, it doesn't, but > > s.isdigit() or (s[0] in "+-" and s[1:].isdigit) # untested > > does. I think this fails on " -1". So, then you start doing s.strip().isdigit(), and then somebody else comes up with some other unexpected corner case... int(s) and catching any exception thrown just sounds like the best way. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
