int vs. float

[Marko Rauhamaa]

boB Stepp <robertvstepp at gmail.com>:

> According to the OP's professor's challenge, the OP needs to recognize
> an input of "4.0" as a float and "4" as an integer, and to respond
> with an error message in the float case, or "decimal number" case as
> the OP phrased it.  Apparently only positive integers are acceptable
> input; all other inputs should generate an appropriate error message
> by input type.

Haven't been following the discussion, but this should be simply:

   ast.literal_eval("...")

For example:

   >>> ast.literal_eval("( 1.0, 3 )").__class__.__name__
   'tuple'


Marko