On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:55:37 +0100, egbert wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 07:16:46PM +0530, Suresh Jeevanandam wrote: >> s1 = '12e3' >> s2 = 'junk' >> Is there any other function which would return True for s1 and False >> for s2. >> > > isinstance(12e3, (int, float))
That won't work, because s1 is a *string*, not a float. The original poster is asking how to check whether the string can be converted to a float successfully before actually trying to convert it to a float. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
