[Tutor] Quick way to find the data type

[bob]

At 12:08 PM 9/27/2005, Bernard Lebel wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Let say I have a string. The value of the string might be 'False',
>'True', '3', '1.394', or whatever else. Is there a quick way to
>convert this string into the appropriate data type other than with
>try/except?

eval()?