String to Float, without introducing errors
Mats Wichmann
mats at wichmann.us
Sat Dec 17 13:41:32 EST 2022
On 12/17/22 07:15, Thomas Passin wrote:
> You have strings, and you want to end up with numbers. The numbers are
> not integers. Other responders have gone directly to whether you should
> use float or decimal as the conversion, but that is a secondary matter.
>
> If you have integers, convert with
>
> integer = int(number_string)
>> -64550.727
they pretty clearly aren't integers:
>> -64511.489
>> -64393.637
>> -64196.763
>> -63920.2
>> -63563.037
>> -63124.156
>> -62602.254
>> -61995.895
>> -61303.548
>> -60523.651
>> -59654.66
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