Noob question: Is all this typecasting normal?

[Ben Finney]

vk <vminch at gmail.com> writes:

> There needs to be a "user_io" or "sanitize" module in the standard
> library to take care of this stuff.
> Like:
> 
> import userio
> 
> logic = userio.userio()
> 
> number = logic.getNumeric("blah: ") # will offer the user a "re-do" in
> case of bad input
> number = logic.forceGetNumeric("Enter your bet!: ") # even if input is
> tainted, will return some number
> 
> text = logic.getText("blargh: ") # return all text
> 
> text = logic.setValidText("[A-Za-z]")
> text = logic.forceGetText("blargh: ") # return some text, strips
> invalid chars
> 
> 
> ... but there isn't, as far as I know.

If there were, I would expect it to conform with PEP 8 (get those ugly
camelCase names outta there :-)

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Ben Finney