How to check if string input is a number? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Based on inspiration from answer. I defined a function as below. Looks like its working fine. Please let me know if you find any issue

def isanumber(inp):
    try:
        val = int(inp)
        return True
    except ValueError:
        try:
            val = float(inp)
            return True
        except ValueError:
            return False

Answer 2

Works fine for check if an input is a positive Integer AND in a specific range

def checkIntValue():
    '''Works fine for check if an **input** is
   a positive Integer AND in a specific range'''
    maxValue = 20
    while True:
        try:
            intTarget = int(input('Your number ?'))
        except ValueError:
            continue
        else:
            if intTarget < 1 or intTarget > maxValue:
                continue
            else:
                return (intTarget)

Answer 3

Why not divide the input by a number? This way works with everything. Negatives, floats, and negative floats. Also Blank spaces and zero.

numList = [499, -486, 0.1255468, -0.21554, 'a', "this", "long string here", "455 street area", 0, ""]

for item in numList:

    try:
        print (item / 2) #You can divide by any number really, except zero
    except:
        print "Not A Number: " + item

Result:

249
-243
0.0627734
-0.10777
Not A Number: a
Not A Number: this
Not A Number: long string here
Not A Number: 455 street area
0
Not A Number: 

Answer 4

a=10

isinstance(a,int)  #True

b='abc'

isinstance(b,int)  #False

Answer 5

natural: [0, 1, 2 ... ∞]

Python 2

it_is = unicode(user_input).isnumeric()

Python 3

it_is = str(user_input).isnumeric()

integer: [-∞, .., -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, ∞]

try:
    int(user_input)
    it_is = True
 except ValueError:
    it_is = False

float: [-∞, .., -2, -1.0...1, -1, -0.0...1, 0, 0.0...1, ..., 1, 1.0...1, ..., ∞]

try:
    float(user_input)
    it_is = True
 except ValueError:
    it_is = False

Answer 6

If you wanted to evaluate floats, and you wanted to accept NaNs as input but not other strings like 'abc', you could do the following:

def isnumber(x):
    import numpy
    try:
        return type(numpy.float(x)) == float
    except ValueError:
        return False