[Baypiggies] scientific notation: string to int

[Eric Edens]

Everything's right; I just didn't know it was built-in :)


On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Keith Dart <keith at dartworks.biz> wrote:

> === On Wed, 12/08, Eric Edens wrote: ===
> > >>> foo ('2.96116E-11')
> > 2.96116e-11
>
> ===
>
> What's wrong with just:
>
> Python> float('2.96116E+11')
> 296116000000.0
>
> Python> float('2.96116E-11')
> 2.96116e-11
>
> ?
>
>
>
> -- Keith Dart
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