float from numbers in text file

[davidgp]

On Jun 21, 4:00 pm, Stephen Hansen <me+list/pyt... at ixokai.io> wrote:
> On 6/21/10 3:54 PM, davidgp wrote:
>
> > i basically tried this:
> > lat =0.0
> > for line in f:
> >   lat = float(line)
>
> > but this gives an error.. does anyone know what i should to do?
> > thanks,
>
> "An error"?
>
> Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Feb 11 2010, 00:51:29)
> [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> f = open("test.txt", "r")
> >>> for line in f:
>
> ...     print float(line)
> ...
> 52.2375412
> 5.1802704
>
> Always include what the actual error is that you're running into.
>
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sorry :)

invalid literal for long() with base 10: '51.9449702'
this is the error i'm getting when i use long(line)

and this is the error for float(line)
invalid literal for float(): not found

cheers,