[Baypiggies] scientific notation: string to int

[Jeff Sheldon]

In python 2.6 (and later) float() works for this...

In [15]: float('2.96116E+11')
Out[15]: 296116000000.0

- Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: baypiggies-bounces+jeff.sheldon=emsense.com at python.org [mailto:baypiggies-bounces+jeff.sheldon=emsense.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Bryce Verdier
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 1:25 PM
To: Baypiggies
Subject: [Baypiggies] scientific notation: string to int

So I've been given a project for work, a large CSV file with many many 
numbers and such to parse through. The lines that look like this:

b1021384-6633-4756-b3e1-c36d34c1dfd2, clientname_001,Thu Dec  2 00:00:00 
UTC 2010,2.96116E+11,0,0, Thu Dec  2 00:00:00 UTC 2010,577078067
20,15228831373,80966857300,

so I'm curious if there is a way to turn the string of scientific notion 
into the actual numerical value?

All ideas are welcomed and thank in advance,

Bryce
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