"Gaz" <thecalm at NOSPAM.btinternet.com> wrote in message news:9h76io$ht3$1 at neptunium.btinternet.com... > any idea how i could test if a variable is a floating point number? > > gaz. > > import types if type(foo) == types.FloatType: Check the spelling - this is from yesterday's memory John Roth