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Re: convert element in a list to float

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On 13/09/2015 20:55, forums_mp@hotmail.com wrote:
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> For starters, I googled and saw a plethora of writings on how to convert an entire list from string to float.   My interest is on select elements in the list.  The output from the print statement: print scenarioList
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> is as follows
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> [ '3000000', '"N"', '11400000', '"E"' ]
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> I need to convert the first and third element to float.
>    lat = ( float ) scenarioList [ 0 ]
>    lon = ( float ) scenarioList [ 2 ]
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> fails (invalid syntax).  How can I achieve my objective.
>
> Thanks in advance
>

Strong hint, you do not cast the strings to floats, you call the builtin 
float() function to do the conversion.

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Mark Lawrence

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convert element in a list to float forums_mp@hotmail.com - 2015-09-13 12:55 -0700
  Re: convert element in a list to float Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-09-13 21:07 +0100
  Re: convert element in a list to float Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-09-13 23:02 +0200
    Re: convert element in a list to float Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 23:43 +0000
  Re: convert element in a list to float Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-09-14 11:09 +1000

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