checking if a string contains a number

[egbert]

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))
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