7 Oct
2011
7 Oct
'11
12:54 a.m.
Michael Foord dixit (2011-10-03, 14:55):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/994c0zb1.aspx
The pattern there is equivalent to returning an extra result as well as the converted value - a boolean indicating whether or not the conversion succeeded (with the "converted value" being 0.0 where conversion fails). A Python version might look like:
success, value = float.parse('thing') if success: ...
Nice. +1 from me.
*j