[Courses]Need a little help with extremely basic Python programming

[Mary]

Hi Jason,

You might be better off asking your question on linuxchix's
programming at linuxchix.org mailing list (Cc-ed).

-Mary

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003, Jason Kappel wrote:
> 
>    I have a quick question about the program in question. I wrote a
>    version that not only adds up to 100, but won't let the user go over,
>    and now I'm looking for a way to check if the input is actually a
>    number, so I don't get an error when text is entered as an input. Is
>    there a function to check if an input is either an integer or floating
>    point?
> 
>    #this takes number inputs from the user untill the sum reaches 100
>    sum = 0.0
>    while (sum < 100):
>        remaining = 100.0-sum
>        print "Please choose a number no larger than",remaining
>        number = input ("> ")
>        sum = sum+number
>        while (number > remaining): #while input too large, subtract and
>    try again
>            sum = sum-number
>            print "That was bigger than",remaining,"try again"
>            number = input ("> ")
>            sum = sum+number
>    print "Good for you! You can add to",sum
> 
> 
>    I have a quick question
>      _________________________________________________________________
> 
>    [1]MSN 8: Get 6 months for $9.95/month.
> 
> References
> 
>    1. http://g.msn.com/8HMFENUS/2728??PS=
> -- 
> Courses mailing list
> Courses at linuxchix.org
> http://mailman.linuxchix.org/mailman/listinfo/courses
>