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Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)?

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Ben Finney writes:

> Victor Hooi writes:
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>> For example:
>>
>> {
>>     "hostname": "example.com",
>>     "version": "3.0.5",
>>     "pid": {
>>         "floatApprox": 18403
>>     }
>>     "network": {
>>         "bytesIn": 123123,
>>         "bytesOut": {
>>             "floatApprox": 213123123
>>         }
>> }

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> In JSON there is no distinction at all, the only numeric type is
> ‘float’. What information is there in the input that can be used to
> know which values should result in an ‘int’ instance, versus values
> that should result in a ‘float’ instance?

I seem to get ints in the example data.

    >>> json.load(io.StringIO('{"floatApprox":31213}'))
    {'floatApprox': 31213}

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Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? Victor Hooi <victorhooi@gmail.com> - 2015-08-27 21:57 -0700
  Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? Victor Hooi <victorhooi@gmail.com> - 2015-08-27 22:04 -0700
    Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? "Sven R. Kunze" <srkunze@mail.de> - 2015-08-28 18:09 +0200
      Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? Robin Koch <robin.koch@t-online.de> - 2015-08-28 18:15 +0200
        Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? "Sven R. Kunze" <srkunze@mail.de> - 2015-08-30 13:38 +0200
        Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-08-30 22:00 +1000
        Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-08-30 13:55 +0100
  Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-08-28 15:44 +1000
    Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? Jussi Piitulainen <harvestingn@makes.address.invalid> - 2015-08-28 09:03 +0300
    Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? Jussi Piitulainen <harvesting@makes.address.invalid> - 2015-08-28 09:15 +0300
      Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? Victor Hooi <victorhooi@gmail.com> - 2015-08-28 00:56 -0700
        Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-08-28 19:23 +1000
  Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? Jussi Piitulainen <harvesting@makes.address.invalid> - 2015-08-28 08:46 +0300
  Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? random832@fastmail.us - 2015-08-28 01:54 -0400
  Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-08-28 07:59 +0200

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