[Tutor] one line code

[Liam Clarke]

[(eval(compile('exec """try:t=float("%s")\nexcept:t="%s" """ in
globals(),locals()'%(s,s),'','exec')),t)[1] for s in l]

Now that's ugly.



On Apr 5, 2005 9:51 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk> wrote:
> > With other words I'd like to tell Python: Convert into a float if
> > possible, otherwise append anyway.
> 
> [ (type(x) == type(5) and float(x) or x) for x in mylist ]
> 
> Should do it...
> 
> Alan G.
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