Convert String to Int and Arithmetic

[tereglow]

Hello,

I am a complete newbie to Python and am accustomed to coding in PHP/
Perl/Shell. I am trying to do the following:

I have a string:

cpuSpeed = 'Speed: 1000000000'

What I would like to do is extract the '1000000000' from the string,
and divide that by 1000 twice to get the speed of a processor in MHz.

My understanding is that I need to 'import re' and then use re.split
to get the first part done. The second part confuses me because I'm
unable to convert the '1000000000' to an integer to run division
against it.

Basically, I want to come out with 1000 for the above string. Any
help would be appreciated.
Tom

[kyosohma]

On Jun 12, 9:32 am, tereglow <[e-mail]:

Hello,

I am a complete newbie to Python and am accustomed to coding in PHP/
Perl/Shell. I am trying to do the following:

I have a string:

cpuSpeed = 'Speed: 1000000000'

What I would like to do is extract the '1000000000' from the string,
and divide that by 1000 twice to get the speed of a processor in MHz.

My understanding is that I need to 'import re' and then use re.split
to get the first part done. The second part confuses me because I'm
unable to convert the '1000000000' to an integer to run division
against it.

Basically, I want to come out with 1000 for the above string. Any
help would be appreciated.
Tom

You don't need to use the "re" module. I'd just do something like
this:

>>temp = cpuSpeed.split(' ')
temp

['Speed:', '1000000000']
# grab the 2nd element from the list and cast it as an integer

>>cpuSpeed = int(temp [1])
cpuSpeed = (cpuSpeed / 1000) / 1000
cpuSpeed

1000

Basically, you just use the split command and cast it as an integer
using the reserved word "int".

Then you can divide it twice.

Mike

[Kay Schluehr]

On 12 Jun., 16:32, tereglow <[e-mail]:

Hello,

I am a complete newbie to Python and am accustomed to coding in PHP/
Perl/Shell. I am trying to do the following:

I have a string:

cpuSpeed = 'Speed: 1000000000'

What I would like to do is extract the '1000000000' from the string,
and divide that by 1000 twice to get the speed of a processor in MHz.

My understanding is that I need to 'import re' and then use re.split
to get the first part done.

It shall suffice to use string methods in this case:

>>int(cpuSpeed.split(":")[1].strip())

1000000000

Finally you might trim the numerical value by division just as you
wish.

[tereglow]

On Jun 12, 10:46 am, Kay Schluehr <[e-mail]:

On 12 Jun., 16:32, tereglow <[e-mail]:

Hello,

I am a complete newbie to Python and am accustomed to coding in PHP/
Perl/Shell. I am trying to do the following:

I have a string:

cpuSpeed = 'Speed: 1000000000'

What I would like to do is extract the '1000000000' from the string,
and divide that by 1000 twice to get the speed of a processor in MHz.

My understanding is that I need to 'import re' and then use re.split
to get the first part done.

It shall suffice to use string methods in this case:

>int(cpuSpeed.split(":")[1].strip())

1000000000

Finally you might trim the numerical value by division just as you
wish.

Thanks guys. The biggest problem I'm having with Python is that it
makes things too easy to do!

[Evan Klitzke]

On 6/12/07, tereglow <te******@yahoo.comwrote:

Basically, I want to come out with 1000 for the above string. Any
help would be appreciated.
Tom

There are any number of techniques you can use to parse out the
integer part of the string -- the most generic is to use the re module
to match regular expressions, but you may not have to use that module
if you know the exact form of the strings you are parsing. Once you
parse out the number into a string such as '1000000' you can just cast
it as an integer using some code like
x = int('1000000')
--
Evan Klitzke <ev**@yelp.com>

[James T. Dennis]

tereglow <te******@yahoo.comwrote:

Hello,

I am a complete newbie to Python and am accustomed to coding in PHP/
Perl/Shell. I am trying to do the following:

I have a string:

cpuSpeed = 'Speed: 1000000000'

What I would like to do is extract the '1000000000' from the string,
and divide that by 1000 twice to get the speed of a processor in MHz.

My understanding is that I need to 'import re' and then use re.split
to get the first part done. The second part confuses me because I'm
unable to convert the '1000000000' to an integer to run division
against it.

Basically, I want to come out with 1000 for the above string. Any
help would be appreciated.
Tom

The most obvious approach, rather hard-coded to the example,
would be:

cpuMhz = float(cpuSpeed[6:]) / 10 ** 6

... take a "slice" of the string, cpuSpeed, from character
seven (zero-based) to the end of the string (cpuSpeed[6:]) and
try to convert it into a floating point number (with the float()
function) and then divide that by the one million
--
Jim Dennis,
Starshine: Signed, Sealed, Delivered

[bearophileHUGS]

Kay Schluehr:

>int(cpuSpeed.split(":")[1].strip())

Probably this suffices:

int(cpuSpeed.split(":")[1])

Bye,
bearophile

[Facundo Batista]

tereglow wrote:

cpuSpeed = 'Speed: 1000000000'

What I would like to do is extract the '1000000000' from the string,
and divide that by 1000 twice to get the speed of a processor in MHz.

>>cpuSpeed = 'Speed: 1000000000'
p = cpuSpeed.split(":")
p

['Speed', ' 1000000000']

>>p[1]

' 1000000000'

>>v = int(p[1])
v

1000000000

>>v / 1000000

1000

>>>

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