[PYTHON DB-SIG] Converting strings to numbers

[Karen Savage]

This seems like it should be easy to do, but I can't figure it out.  I have
a string variable containing a numeric value. (i.e. '3').  I want to convert
it to a numeric variable type.  Any ideas?  Also is there an equivalent of
an IsNumber(string) call that tells you if a string value can be converted
to a numeric?


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