[Tutor] checking if a variable is an integer?

[Joel Goldstick]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Hans Barkei <handihans at gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to make  a program that finds all the prime numbers up to a number
> inputed by the user.
> I want to know if it is an integer because that will tell me if it is
> divisible by that number or not.
>                          *  ---------Hans-----*
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1265665/python-check-if-a-string-represents-an-int-without-using-try-except

def RepresentsInt(s):
    try:
        int(s)
        return True
    except ValueError:
        return False

>>> print RepresentsInt("+123")
True
>>> print RepresentsInt("10.0")
False



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Joel Goldstick
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