On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> number = +raw_input("enter a number: ")
>
> versus:
>
> text = raw_input("enter a number: ")
> try:
> number = float(text)
> except ValueError:
> number = int(text)
What kinds of strings can float() not handle but int() can, and in a
program that's going to group floats and ints together as "numbers",
will they ever be useful? I'd be more likely to write this as simply:
number = float(input("Enter a number: "))
(Also, I use Python 3. No raw. But same diff.)
ChrisA
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