From 17639b33d8906eafae68bc56cb74780c0149fcb3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Hewins <B.Hewins@mwam.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 17:48:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH]  _is_float should return false rather than an error when the
 object being tested is not a valid param for float()

---
 influxdb/line_protocol.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/influxdb/line_protocol.py b/influxdb/line_protocol.py
index 4ec56dc5..c399a1d5 100644
--- a/influxdb/line_protocol.py
+++ b/influxdb/line_protocol.py
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ def quote_literal(value):
 def _is_float(value):
     try:
         float(value)
-    except ValueError:
+    except (TypeError, ValueError):
         return False
 
     return True