Avoiding "invalid literal for int()" exception

[Fredrik Lundh]

Gabriel Genellina wrote:

>>> elif uniList[0].isdigit():
>>

>> The last does not work.  Not only that it accepts numbers greater than 9
>> because it checks if the whole string consists of digits, it also accepts
>> u'²₂' and other unicode digits.
> 
> Oh, I didn't know that last part! Thanks.
> I get a bit confused by the [0], thinking it was checking a single
> character.

if you really want to use isdigit(), writing

     uniList[0].encode("ascii", "ignore").isdigit()

should solve the unicode issue, I think.

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