RosettaCodeData/Task/Determine-if-a-string-is-nu.../Python/determine-if-a-string-is-nu...

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def is_numeric(lit):
'Return value of numeric literal string or ValueError exception'
# Handle '0'
if lit == '0': return 0
# Hex/Binary
litneg = lit[1:] if lit[0] == '-' else lit
if litneg[0] == '0':
if litneg[1] in 'xX':
return int(lit,16)
elif litneg[1] in 'bB':
return int(lit,2)
else:
try:
return int(lit,8)
except ValueError:
pass
# Int/Float/Complex
try:
return int(lit)
except ValueError:
pass
try:
return float(lit)
except ValueError:
pass
return complex(lit)