dict problem

[Alistair King]

Ben Finney wrote:
> "Jon Clements" <joncle at googlemail.com> writes:
>
>   
>> We're still in the dark as to what you're trying to do, try
>> describing something like: "for each element there is an associated
>> 'F' value. For each element in an existing molecule I wish to change
>> the number of 'whatever' to be 'whatever' + my 'F' value * value
>> XDS..."
>>     
>
> 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.

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