From 7e4267b08b7c4a8912d607dd6cd478f03086c361 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris <chris@ladybug.tools>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 19:48:29 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat(point): Added automatic casting to float for coordinate
 values

As noted in other discussions, I realized that this did not significantly affect the performance of initializing objects with a lot of points.  So we might as well implement this and avoid having to check it elsewhere.
---
 ladybug_geometry/geometry2d/pointvector.py | 13 +++++++++++--
 ladybug_geometry/geometry3d/pointvector.py | 15 ++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ladybug_geometry/geometry2d/pointvector.py b/ladybug_geometry/geometry2d/pointvector.py
index ed998ddf..387fbeb2 100644
--- a/ladybug_geometry/geometry2d/pointvector.py
+++ b/ladybug_geometry/geometry2d/pointvector.py
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ class Vector2D(object):
 
     def __init__(self, x=0, y=0):
         """Initialize 2D Vector."""
-        self._x = x
-        self._y = y
+        self._x = self._cast_to_float(x)
+        self._y = self._cast_to_float(y)
 
     @classmethod
     def from_dict(cls, data):
@@ -130,6 +130,15 @@ def to_dict(self):
         return {'x': self.x,
                 'y': self.y}
 
+    def _cast_to_float(self, value):
+        """Ensure that an input coordinate value is a float."""
+        try:
+            number = float(value)
+        except (ValueError, TypeError):
+            raise TypeError(
+                'Coordinates must be numbers. Got {}: {}.'.format(type(value), value))
+        return number
+
     @staticmethod
     def _rotate(vec, angle):
         """Hidden rotation method used by both Point2D and Vector2D."""
diff --git a/ladybug_geometry/geometry3d/pointvector.py b/ladybug_geometry/geometry3d/pointvector.py
index e9e130be..e4992a9d 100644
--- a/ladybug_geometry/geometry3d/pointvector.py
+++ b/ladybug_geometry/geometry3d/pointvector.py
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ class Vector3D(object):
 
     def __init__(self, x=0, y=0, z=0):
         """Initialize 3D Vector."""
-        self._x = x
-        self._y = y
-        self._z = z
+        self._x = self._cast_to_float(x)
+        self._y = self._cast_to_float(y)
+        self._z = self._cast_to_float(z)
 
     @classmethod
     def from_dict(cls, data):
@@ -135,6 +135,15 @@ def to_dict(self):
                 'y': self.y,
                 'z': self.z}
 
+    def _cast_to_float(self, value):
+        """Ensure that an input coordinate value is a float."""
+        try:
+            number = float(value)
+        except (ValueError, TypeError):
+            raise TypeError(
+                'Coordinates must be numbers. Got {}: {}.'.format(type(value), value))
+        return number
+
     @staticmethod
     def _reflect(vec, normal):
         """Hidden reflection method used by both Point3D and Vector3D."""