Re: check if object is number

[Steven Bethard]

Dan Bishop wrote:
Steven Bethard wrote:
Is there a good way to determine if an object is a numeric type?
How about this?
... def is_number(x):
...    try:
...       x + 1
...       return True
...    except TypeError:
...       return False
Great, thanks!  That's the kind of thing I was looking for!
Steve
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