Tim Williams wrote:
> On 04/09/06, Dr. Pastor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> In the following code I would like to ascertain
>> that x has/is a number. What the simplest TEST should be?
def isnumber(value):
try:
value/1
return true
except TypeError:
return false
I think this works for all builtin types. Of course one could
overload '/' for a non-numeric class. The best solution would
be to introduce a super class base_number for int, long, float
and decimal, similar to base_string for str and unicode.
This would probably be not too hard to implement and surely not
break old code :)
Peter Maas, Aachen
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