float from numbers in text file

[Stephen Hansen]

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
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>>> 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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