"Steven Bethard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there a good way to determine if an object is a numeric type?
In your example, what does your application consider to be numeric?
Well, here's the basic code:
def f(max=None):
...
while max is None or n <= max:
...
# complicated incrementing of nSo for 'max', technically all I need is <= support. However, the code also depends on the fact that after incrementing 'n' enough, it will eventually exceed 'max'. Currently, ints, longs, floats, and Decimals will all meet this behavior. But I'd rather not specify only those 4 (e.g. with a typecheck), since someone could relatively easily create their own new numeric type with the same behavior. Do you know a better way to test for this kind of behavior?
Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
