try..except or type() or isinstance()?

[Manfred Lotz]

On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 11:47:03 +0200
Sibylle Koczian <nulla.epistola at web.de> wrote:

> Am 15.08.2020 um 10:14 schrieb Manfred Lotz:
> > Hi Chris,
> > Thanks a lot for you advice.
> >
> > On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 16:15:29 +1000
> > Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  
> >> On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 3:36 PM Manfred Lotz <ml_news at posteo.de>
> >> wrote:  
> >>>
> >>> I have an object which I could initialize providind an int or a
> >>> str. 
> ...
> >
> > For my use case I don't like this solution as I get the value which
> > could be an int or str from a file. Means I would have to check the
> > type beforehand in order to know if I have to do O4(val) or
> > O4.from_name(val).
> >
> > Otherwise, it is admittedly a very good pattern.
> >
> >  
> Possibly silly question: 

No silly questions. There are at most stupid answers. :-)

> if the value comes from a file, isn't it a
> string in any case? A string that may be convertible to int or not? Or
> what sort of file do I overlook?
> 

In this case it is a TOML file. 


-- 
Manfred