Tim Chase wrote: > Are there existing "quiet" conversion functions? Kin of > int() and float()?
Not in the standard library. Nor will there be. It goes against the development philosophy of the core Python development team. > My aim would be to call a function that would guarntee that > the result was of the defined type, choosing sensible > defaults if needed. Only you know what "sensible" is in your context, so you get to write the function. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
