You should probably work through the tutorials.
Use a try block:
try: x=float(s)
except ValueError:
print 'Non-numeric value %s found' % s
-Larry Bates
Suresh Jeevanandam wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a string like,
> s1 = '12e3'
> s2 = 'junk'
>
> Now before converting these values to float, I want to check if they
> are valid numbers.
>
> s1.isdigit returns False.
>
> Is there any other function which would return True for s1 and False
> for s2.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Suresh
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