str currently has methods like isdecimal, isnumeric and isdigit, but there isn't an isfloat check, which could be very handy.
a trivial implementation could be as simple as: try: float(self) return True except ValueError: return False _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/KEUR54FVEE7FRY4RGLK4IGTJOTKXQH5H/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/