New submission from JimmyCarlos <jonathansagne...@yahoo.com>:

Hello Python Community!

One feature I think would be helpful would be a method to see if a str can be 
safely converted into a float. Currently, this is not doable without a long 
regex or a try-except block, as numbers like "-3.52" contain non-numeric 
symbols.

My suggestion is to make a new boolean method on the str class. Code-wise, it 
would behave quite similarly to this code:

def isfloat(s:str) -> bool:
    try:
        float(s)
        return True
    except:
        return False


I appreciate your feedback, so what do you all think?

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messages: 390785
nosy: JimmyCarlos
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Add .isfloat() method to str
type: enhancement

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