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

[Manfred Lotz]

On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 12:20:48 -0400
Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 15:31:56 +0200, Manfred Lotz <ml_news at posteo.de>
> declaimed the following:
> 
> >On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 11:47:03 +0200
> >Sibylle Koczian <nulla.epistola at web.de> wrote:
> >  
> 
> >> 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.   
> 
> 	Based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOML this means you
> need a parser... 
> """
> In TOML the syntax determines the data types ("syntax typing")
> """
> 
> 	String data is surrounded with " marks, numbers are not
> (though the example doesn't show if integers are treated differently
> from floating point), arrays/lists in [] with embedded comma ([] are
> also overloaded for section headers, with subsections using
> section.subsection naming), dates are some ugly creation, and looks
> like true/false are reserved values.
> 
> 	However, as pointed out -- all data read from the file will
> be seen as a Python string data type. It is only after determining
> the TOML data type -- by examining the string itself -- that one can
> convert to internal format.
> 
> 	Unfortunately, TOML is not compatible with INI -- for which
> Python already has a read/write module. But there is
> https://pypi.org/project/toml/
> (uses the same example file as Wikipedia) -- latest version was from
> May.
> 
> 

I use tomlkit as the toml package doesn't support quoted keys
sufficiently.

-- 
Manfred