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Re: extracting numbers with decimal places from a string

From Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
Subject Re: extracting numbers with decimal places from a string
Date 2015-01-12 01:09 +0100
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> Joel Goldstick wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
>> <PointedEars@web.de> wrote:
>>> Joel Goldstick wrote:
>>>> Am I missing something.
>>>                        ^
>>> […]
>>> You are missing a leading space character because in the string the
>>> comma was followed by one.
>> 
>> I see that now.  Performing float on each element of the list will
>> take care of that, or I guess .strip() on each first.
> 
> As I showed, .strip() is unnecessary.  But float() is always necessary for
> computing the sum and suffices indeed together with s.split() if s is just
> a comma-separated list of numeric strings with optional whitespace leading
> and trailing the comma:
> 
>   print(sum(map(lambda x: float(x), s.split(',')))
> 
> Please trim your quotes to the relevant minimum.

Hm, can you explain what this

lambda x: float(x)

is supposed to achieve? I mean other than to confuse a newbie...

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extracting numbers with decimal places from a string Store Makhzan <store0a@gmail.com> - 2015-01-11 11:31 -0800
  Re: extracting numbers with decimal places from a string Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2015-01-11 15:06 -0500
    Re: extracting numbers with decimal places from a string Store Makhzan <store0a@gmail.com> - 2015-01-11 12:26 -0800
      Re: extracting numbers with decimal places from a string Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2015-01-11 16:42 -0500
        Re: extracting numbers with decimal places from a string Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-01-11 23:20 +0100
          Re: extracting numbers with decimal places from a string Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2015-01-11 17:54 -0500
            Re: extracting numbers with decimal places from a string Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-01-12 00:12 +0100
              Re: extracting numbers with decimal places from a string Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2015-01-11 18:35 -0500
                Re: extracting numbers with decimal places from a string Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-01-12 00:46 +0100
                Re: extracting numbers with decimal places from a string Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-01-12 01:09 +0100
                Re: extracting numbers with decimal places from a string Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-01-12 01:45 +0100
                Re: extracting numbers with decimal places from a string Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-12 11:17 +1100
          Re: extracting numbers with decimal places from a string Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-12 11:45 +1100
        Re: extracting numbers with decimal places from a string Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-01-11 23:06 +0000
  Re: extracting numbers with decimal places from a string Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-01-12 00:07 +0100
    Re: extracting numbers with decimal places from a string Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-01-12 00:04 +0000
      Re: extracting numbers with decimal places from a string Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-01-12 02:00 +0100
    Re: extracting numbers with decimal places from a string MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-01-12 00:59 +0000
    Re: extracting numbers with decimal places from a string Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-12 12:13 +1100

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