Convert '165.0' to int

[Frank Millman]

On Jul 21, 11:47 am, Leo Jay <python.leo... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Frank Millman <fr... at chagford.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all
>
> > I want to convert '165.0' to an integer.
>
> > The obvious method does not work -
>
> >>>> x = '165.0'
> >>>> int(x)
>
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> > ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '165.0'
>
> > If I convert to a float first, it does work -
>
> >>>> int(float(x))
>
> > 165
>
> > Is there a short cut, or must I do this every time (I have lots of them!) ? I know I can write a function to do this, but is there anything built-in?
>
> > Thanks
>
> > Frank Millman
>
> How about int(x[:-2])?
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Leo Jay- Hide quoted text -
>
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Nice idea, but it seems to be marginally slower[1] than int(float(x)),
so I think I will stick with the latter.

Frank

[1] See separate thread on apparent inconsisteny in timeit timings.