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On 2012/01/31 06:50 AM, Michael Lewis wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">I am trying to do a simple test but am not sure how
to get around ASCII conversion of characters. I want to pass in
y have the function test to see if y is an integer and print out
a value if that integer satisfies the if statement. However, if
I pass in a string, it's converted to ASCII and will still
satisfy the if statement and print out value. How do I ensure
that a string is caught as a ValueError instead of being
converted?
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<div>def TestY(y):</div>
<div> try:</div>
<div> y = int(y)</div>
<div> except ValueError:</div>
<div> pass</div>
<div> if y < -1 or y > 1:</div>
<div> value = 82</div>
<div> print value</div>
<div> else:</div>
<div> pass</div>
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If you just want to test if `y` is an integer you can do so with
`type(y) == int`, and to get the ASCII value of a character you can
use `ord` like `ord('a') == 97`. And how to avoid your ValueError
with a bad conversion, do your type checking before hand.<br>
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Hope that helps.<br>
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