On Apr 6, 10:23 am, Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This doesn't cater for negative integers. > > > No, it doesn't, but > > > s.isdigit() or (s[0] in "+-" and s[1:].isdigit) # untested > > > does. > > I think this fails on " -1". So, then you start doing > s.strip().isdigit(), and then somebody else comes up with some other > unexpected corner case... > > int(s) and catching any exception thrown just sounds like the best way.
Another corner case: Is "5.0" an integer or treated as one? regards, ernie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
