Postfix evaluator

1. Code does not check for malformed expressions.
2. Operators recognised are +,-,*,/.
3. Unary positive and negative operators are not supported.

Java:

public class PostfixEvaluator {
  public int evaluate(String postfixExpression) {
	LinkedList<Integer> stack = new LinkedList<Integer>();

	char[] chars = postfixExpression.toCharArray();

	for (char chr : chars) {
	  if (isLetter(chr)) {
		stack.add(Integer.valueOf(String.valueOf(chr)));
	  } else {
		int no1 = stack.removeLast();
		int no2 = stack.removeLast();
		stack.add(perfromMathematicalOperation(no2, no1, chr));
	  }
	}

	return stack.removeLast();
  }

  public static boolean isLetter(char chr) {
	try {
	  Integer.parseInt(String.valueOf(chr));
	  return true;
	} catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
	  return false;
	}
  }

  public int perfromMathematicalOperation(int a, int b, char operator) {
	switch (operator) {
	case '+':
	  return a + b;
	case '-':
	  return a - b;
	case '*':
	  return a * b;
	case '/':
	  return a / b;
	default:
	  throw new AssertionError("Invalid operator : " + operator);
	}
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
	PostfixEvaluator postfixEvaluator = new PostfixEvaluator();
	System.out.println(postfixEvaluator.evaluate("34-5+"));
  }

}

Python:

import operator

operator_functions = {
    '+': operator.add,
    '-': operator.sub,
    '*': operator.mul,
    '/': operator.div
}

postfix_expression = "34-5+"

stack = []

for char in postfix_expression :
	if char in operator_functions:
		no1 = int(stack.pop())
		no2 = int(stack.pop())
		stack.append(operator_functions[char](no2, no1))
	else :
		stack.append(char)

print stack.pop()

Question I asked in stackoverflow regarding this code.