[newbie] problem with data (different behaviour between batch and interactive use)

[Justin Barber]

When you are reading it in measurement is a string. The indicies of the string are going to be returned in your print statements.


Similar to having done this in the interpreter:
In [17]: measurement = '+3.874693E01,+9.999889E03,+9.910000E+37,+1.876595E+04,+3.994000E+04'

In [18]: measurement[1]
Out[18]: '3'

In [19]: measurement[0]
Out[19]: '+'

You need to split up your string and convert to floats.

measurement = map(float, serkeith.readline().replace('\x11','').replace('\x13','').replace('\x0d','\n').split(','))

Something like that should work...

to test in interpreter do the following :

measurement = map(float, '+3.874693E01,+9.999889E03,+9.910000E+37,+1.876595E+04,+3.994000E+04'.split(','))
In [24]: measurement[0]
Out[24]: 38.74693