tim wrote: > leaving-it-up-to-/f-to-decide-what-.rational()-should-return-for-pi- > ly y'ts - the timmy of death oh, the unicode folks have figured that one out: >>> unicodedata.numeric(u"\N{GREEK PI SYMBOL}") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? ValueError: not a numeric character </F>