How do I check if a string represents a number (float or int)?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3540...

Question links:
[How can I read inputs as numbers?]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2044.../
[Asking the user for input until they give a valid response]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2329.../

Answer 1 links:
[isdigit()]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtyp...
[Python2]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtyp...
[Python3]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtyp...
[isnumeric()]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtyp...

Answer 2 links:
[benchmarks]: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/rasbt...
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