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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 wri=
tes:
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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 i=
n 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 =3D ( float ) scenarioList [ 0 ]
>  lon =3D ( float ) scenarioList [ 2 ]
>
>fails (invalid syntax).  How can I achieve my objective. =

>
>Thanks in advance

Does this help?

>>> l =3D [ '3000000', '"N"', '11400000', '"E"' ]
>>> [float(l[0]), l[1], float(l[2]), l[3]]
[3000000.0, '"N"', 11400000.0, '"E"']

Laura