MooMaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I know how to write a regexp or method or whatever to do this, my main
> question is *why* something like an isNumber() method is not baked
> into the class.
Because that name wouldn't conform to PEP 8.
(Also, and more importantly, because it's more correc
On Apr 30, 7:56 pm, MooMaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> N00b question alert! I did a search for isdigit() in the group
> discussion, and it didn't look like the question had been asked in the
> first 2 pages, so sorry if it was...
>
> The manual documentation says:
> "isdigit( )
>
> Return true
In article
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MooMaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So it makes sense that something like 5.6 would return false. But what
> if we want to make sure that our string is a valid number, ie decimals
> included?
Just call int(x) or float(x) inside a try block and see if if it rai
N00b question alert! I did a search for isdigit() in the group
discussion, and it didn't look like the question had been asked in the
first 2 pages, so sorry if it was...
The manual documentation says:
"isdigit( )
Return true if all characters in the string are digits and there is at
least one ch
