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| From | Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. |
| Date | 2015-11-15 13:23 +1100 |
| Message-ID | <mailman.342.1447554248.16136.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
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On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
> number = +raw_input("enter a number: ")
>
> versus:
>
> text = raw_input("enter a number: ")
> try:
> number = float(text)
> except ValueError:
> number = int(text)
What kinds of strings can float() not handle but int() can, and in a
program that's going to group floats and ints together as "numbers",
will they ever be useful? I'd be more likely to write this as simply:
number = float(input("Enter a number: "))
(Also, I use Python 3. No raw. But same diff.)
ChrisA
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Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-14 09:42 +1100
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Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-14 14:01 +1100
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