isFloat: Without Exception-Handling

[Chad Netzer]

On Friday 04 October 2002 17:59, I wrote:

> This works better, but does extra work:

Duh, Chad!  Just change "and" to "or":

def isFloat(s):
    try: return float(s) or True
    except (ValueError, TypeError), e: return False

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Chad Netzer
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