dict problem

[Ben Finney]

Alistair King <alistair.king at helsinki.fi> writes:

> Ben Finney wrote:
> > Even better, work on a minimal program to do nothing but reproduce
> > the unexpected behaviour. If you get to such a program and still
> > don't understand, then post it here so others can run it
> > themselves and explain.
> ive checked the values and XDS is actually returning a string where i
> want a float ie '123.45' not 123.45.

Can you please post a small, complete program that shows the behaviour
you want explained?

You get this program by writing it -- either by cutting away
irrelevant parts of the existing program, or (better) writing a new
program from scratch that does nothing except demonstrate the
behaviour.

Note that in the process of getting such a program behaving this way,
you may end up understanding the problem better.

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Ben Finney