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alex23 wuwei23 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 22 21:37:27 EDT 2014 
On 23/10/2014 10:02 AM, Seymore4Head wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 00:44:01 +0100, Mark Lawrence
> <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> One more question.
>>>>> if y in str(range(10)
>>>>> Why doesn't that work.
>> I suggest you try str(range(10)) from the interactive prompt and see
>> exactly what you get, as it's nothing like what you expect :)
>
> I see that now.  So there may not be a short hand solution.

There are two 'short hand solutions' to do what you want here:

     import string

     if y in string.digits:
         ....

Or even simpler:

     if y.isdigit():
         ...
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