# HG changeset patch
# User Jeff Hammel <k0scist@gmail.com>
# Date 1421799393 28800
# Node ID 06e487f90e052cf2219ddb558e541d95d625cb09
# Parent  ecaf1d4b1c2caeded18479a95d583ca6565925cf
this now works

diff -r ecaf1d4b1c2c -r 06e487f90e05 numerics/convert.py
--- a/numerics/convert.py	Tue Jan 20 16:12:40 2015 -0800
+++ b/numerics/convert.py	Tue Jan 20 16:16:33 2015 -0800
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
         for value in values:
             try:
                 t(value)
-            except TypeError:
+            except ValueError, TypeError:
                 break
         else:
             return t
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
 
     # print type information
     writer = csv.writer(sys.stdout)
-    writer.writerow(types)
+    writer.writerow([t.__name__ for t in types])
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':