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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 11:17:29 +1100
Subject: Re: extracting numbers with decimal places from a string
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> wrote:
>>
>>   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...

Maybe he gets paid by the character.

ChrisA