Checking if a string can be converted to float in Python

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7360...

Question links:
[this question]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3540...

Answer 1 links:
[How do I parse a string to a float or int?]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3799...

Answer 3 links:
[fastnumbers]: https://pypi.org/project/fastnumbers
[fastnumbers]: https://pypi.org/project/fastnumbers
[isfloat]: http://fastnumbers.readthedocs.io/en/mas...
[this answer]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/736179/13992...

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