[Tutor] string to number

[Andrei Kulakov]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 02:23:14PM -0500, Jordan, Jay wrote:
> I have a list containing multiple strings which are numbers. [209, 30, 50,
> 123, 40, ...etc]
> 
> I want to use my list but perform numerical operations on the contents but
> it wont let me use INT and the ATOL function keeps comming up as undefined
> even though I have IMPORT STRING at the top of my project. Is there another
> better way to take a string and make it a number?
>

Python 2.1.1 (#1, Apr  6 2002, 13:34:31) 
[GCC 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
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>>> l = ["209", "30", "50"]
>>> l = [int(x) for x in l]
>>> l
[209, 30, 50]

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