Determining Types in a String

[William Dandreta]

Hi n,

Have you tried putting the types like 'string', 'int', etc,  as keys in a
dictionary something like this:

myTypes = {'int': doint, 'string': dostring, etc.}

fields = string.split(line)
try:
  for f in fields:
    myTypes[type(f)]
except:
  do something if type not listed


npk1977 at my-deja.com wrote in message <8inuov$8r2$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>...
>Hi all, I am trying to load a matrix of floats, ints and strings into
>an array.
>
>I have a method that works, but is slow, the psuedocode is:
>
>v = string.split(line)
>for items in v:
> Attempt to recast item as an int(), if that fails, catch the exception
>and try to recase as long(), keep doing this until I can go no further.
>
> 6 def Recast(v):
> 7         v = string.split(v)
> 8         for i in range(0,len(v)):
> 9                 try: v[i] = int(v[i])
>10                 except Exception:
>11                         try: v[i] = long(v[i])
>12                         except Exception:
>13                                 try: v[i] = float(v[i])
>14                                 except Exception:
>15                                         try: v[i] = str(v[i])
>16                                         except Exception:
>17 FAIL
>
>Thanks!
>n
>
>
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