[Baypiggies] scientific notation: string to int

[Keith Dart]

=== On Wed, 12/08, Jeff Sheldon wrote: ===
> In python 2.6 (and later) float() works for this...
> 
> In [15]: float('2.96116E+11')
> Out[15]: 296116000000.0
===

Earlier versions, also:

>>> import sys
>>> sys.version
'2.4.3 (#1, Nov 11 2010, 13:34:43) \n[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat4.1.2-48)]'
>>> float('2.96116E+11')
296116000000.0


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