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| From | Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> |
| Subject | Re: convert element in a list to float |
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In a message of Sun, 13 Sep 2015 12:55:13 -0700, forums_mp@hotmail.com writes: > > >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 > >is as follows > >[ '3000000', '"N"', '11400000', '"E"' ] > >I need to convert the first and third element to float. > lat = ( float ) scenarioList [ 0 ] > lon = ( float ) scenarioList [ 2 ] > >fails (invalid syntax). How can I achieve my objective. > >Thanks in advance Does this help? >>> l = [ '3000000', '"N"', '11400000', '"E"' ] >>> [float(l[0]), l[1], float(l[2]), l[3]] [3000000.0, '"N"', 11400000.0, '"E"'] Laura
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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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