check on numerical value?

[Emile van Sebille]

<pixie888 at hotmail.com> wrote in message
> Is there any way to discover when a value is numerical or not in
> Python? I want a check in my code on a given value. If somebody enters
> or gives me something like "akjlvqùirq" this is surely not a numerical
> value.
>

int(value) or float(value) depending on what values you'd except.

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Emile van Sebille
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