convert element in a list to float
Laura Creighton
lac at openend.se
Sun Sep 13 17:02:55 EDT 2015
In a message of Sun, 13 Sep 2015 12:55:13 -0700, forums_mp at hotmail.com writes:
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>For starters, I googled and saw a plethora of writings on how to convert an entire list from string to float. My interest is on select elements in the list. The output from the print statement: print scenarioList
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>is as follows
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>[ '3000000', '"N"', '11400000', '"E"' ]
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>I need to convert the first and third element to float.
> lat = ( float ) scenarioList [ 0 ]
> lon = ( float ) scenarioList [ 2 ]
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>fails (invalid syntax). How can I achieve my objective.
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>Thanks in advance
Does this help?
>>> l = [ '3000000', '"N"', '11400000', '"E"' ]
>>> [float(l[0]), l[1], float(l[2]), l[3]]
[3000000.0, '"N"', 11400000.0, '"E"']
Laura
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