A question about string and float number

[Wei Guo]

Hi Thanks for Tyler and Edwin's help.

For my questions, I need to import some xml file and there are floating
number and strings in it. I need to process string and number differently.
This is reason that I am asking question here. Is this background
information we need for this quesions.

Btw, which way is better? type or with exception ValueError?

Thanks,

Wei


On 8/6/08, Tyler Breisacher <dancinguy at linkline.com> wrote:
>
> It's generally a bad idea to use "except" without naming a specific
> exception. The exception you might expect in this case is ValueError. Any
> other exception *should* be uncaught if it happens. By the way, this method
> will return true for integers as well as floats. For example, isFloat('3')
> will return 3.0. So make sure this is what you want, since it wasn't 100%
> clear from the original message.
>
>
> Wei Guo wrote:
>
>> #this is a better way of testing a string for float
>> def isFloat(s):
>>    try:
>>        s = float(s)
>>    except:
>>        return False
>>    return True
>>
>
>
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