On Tuesday 29 March 2005 03:04, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > from decimal import Decimal > import re > > number = re.compile(r"((\b|(?=\W))(\d+(\.\d*)?|\.\d+)([eE][+-]?\d{1,3})?)") > deciexpr = lambda s: number.sub(r"Decimal('\1')", s) > > for s in ('1.00000001+0.1111111', > '+21.3e-5*85-.1234/81.6', > '1.0/7'): > print '%s\n --> %r' % (s, eval(s)) > s = deciexpr(s) > print '%s\n --> %r\n' % (s, eval(s))
Wow! Thank you so much!!! now I can do my simple math function evaluator much more reliable ! Thanks again! -- Julián -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list