converting string to long in python
<p>Python provides a convenient method long() to convert string to long:</p>

<pre><code>long('234') 
</code></pre>

<p>; converts '234' into a long</p>

<p>If user keys in 234.89 then python will raise an error message:</p>

<pre><code>ValueError: invalid literal for long()
with base 10: '234.89'
</code></pre>

<p>How should we a python programmer handles scenarios where a string with a decimal value ? </p>

<p>Thank you =)</p>
