int vs. float

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 07:24 pm, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:

> boB Stepp <robertvstepp at gmail.com>:
> 
>> According to the OP's professor's challenge, the OP needs to recognize
>> an input of "4.0" as a float and "4" as an integer, and to respond
>> with an error message in the float case, or "decimal number" case as
>> the OP phrased it.  Apparently only positive integers are acceptable
>> input; all other inputs should generate an appropriate error message
>> by input type.
> 
> Haven't been following the discussion, but this should be simply:
> 
>    ast.literal_eval("...")
> 
> For example:
> 
>    >>> ast.literal_eval("( 1.0, 3 )").__class__.__name__
>    'tuple'


In what way does returning a tuple match the requirement "return an int or a
float or generate an error message"?




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