On Apr 5, 6:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > which is the best way to check if a string is an number or a char? > could the 2nd example be very expensive timewise if i have to check a > lot of strings?
You might be interested in str.isdigit: >>> print str.isdigit.__doc__ S.isdigit() -> bool Return True if all characters in S are digits and there is at least one character in S, False otherwise. Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list