Converting an array of string to array of float

[joy99]

On Mar 25, 9:19 pm, "bruno.desthuilli... at gmail.com"
<bruno.desthuilli... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25 mar, 16:19, joy99 <subhakolkata1... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Dear Group,
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> > I got a question which might be possible but I am not getting how to
> > do it.
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> > If I have a list, named,
> > list1=[1.0,2.3,4.4,5.5....]
>
> > Now each element in the array holds the string property if I want to
> > convert them to float, how would I do it?
>
> > Extracting the values with for and appending to a blank list it would
> > not solve the problem. If appended to a blank list, it would not
> > change the property.
>
> > If any one of the learned members can kindly suggest any solution?
>
> >>> print source
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> ['0.0', '1.0', '2.0', '3.0', '4.0', '5.0', '6.0', '7.0', '8.0', '9.0']>>> source[:] = map(float, source)
> >>> print source
>
> [0.0, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0]
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> Note the "source[:] = " part - it modifies the list in place.

Thanks Bruno. I just missed it. I got it back and thanks Blockhead for
giving me new angle to look into the problem.
Best Regards,
Subhabrata.