I am out of trial and error again Lists

[Seymore4Head]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:37:27 +1000, alex23 <wuwei23 at gmail.com> wrote:

>On 23/10/2014 10:02 AM, Seymore4Head wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 00:44:01 +0100, Mark Lawrence
>> <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>> One more question.
>>>>>> if y in str(range(10)
>>>>>> Why doesn't that work.
>>> I suggest you try str(range(10)) from the interactive prompt and see
>>> exactly what you get, as it's nothing like what you expect :)
>>
>> I see that now.  So there may not be a short hand solution.
>
>There are two 'short hand solutions' to do what you want here:
>
>     import string
>
>     if y in string.digits:
>         ....
>
>Or even simpler:
>
>     if y.isdigit():
>         ...
Thanks