Deal with funky ESRI Python Result objects that don't return sane types, namely getCount which returns not an integer, but a Result object that contains a string.

EZri.py

# Deal with funky python Result objects that don't return sane types

def EZri(result):
  value = result.getOutput(0)
  #is it numeric?
  try:
    numval = float(value)
  except ValueError:
    return value
  # maybe it's an int?
  if str(int(value)) == value:
    return int(value)
  else:
    return numval