Catch data type miss match
value = "2"
print repr(value), "is ",
try:
value + 0
except TypeError:
# not a number, maybe a string, Unicode, UserString...?
try:
value + ''
except TypeError:
print "neither a number nor a string"
else:
print "a string or string-like value"
else:
print "a number of some kind"
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