str to float (rounded)

[Nader]

Hello,

I have a list of tuple with strin elements. These elements are number,
but they are save as string. Now I will change the string to number
which will be rounded. An example will make it more clear.

t = [('35.757', '-0.239'), ('33.332', '-2.707'), ('33.640', '-2.423')]

And I will have the next list:

t = [(35.76, -2.24), (33.33, -2.71), (33.64, -2.42)]

The elements of tuple are not more as string.

Would somebody tell me how I can do that?

Regards,
Nader

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Nader wrote:

Hello,

I have a list of tuple with strin elements. These elements are number,
but they are save as string. Now I will change the string to number
which will be rounded. An example will make it more clear.

t = [('35.757', '-0.239'), ('33.332', '-2.707'), ('33.640', '-2.423')]

And I will have the next list:

t = [(35.76, -2.24), (33.33, -2.71), (33.64, -2.42)]

The elements of tuple are not more as string.

Would somebody tell me how I can do that?

use

float("123.45")

to convert a string to a float.

Of course you need to do that on all your elements above by e.g. a
list-comprehension.

Diez

[Nader]

On Jun 10, 4:30 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[e-mail]:

Nader wrote:

Hello,

I have a list of tuple with strin elements. These elements are number,
but they are save as string. Now I will change the string to number
which will be rounded. An example will make it more clear.

t = [('35.757', '-0.239'), ('33.332', '-2.707'), ('33.640', '-2.423')]

And I will have the next list:

t = [(35.76, -2.24), (33.33, -2.71), (33.64, -2.42)]

The elements of tuple are not more as string.

Would somebody tell me how I can do that?

use

float("123.45")

to convert a string to a float.

Of course you need to do that on all your elements above by e.g. a
list-comprehension.

Diez

If I do the next :

t1 = [(round(float(x),1), round(float(y),2)) for x, y in t]

I get the long float as :

[(35.799999999999997, -0.23999999999999999), (33.299999999999997,
-2.71), (33.600000000000001,-2.4199999999999999)]

But I would have a float with 2 decimal numbers.

[Diez B. Roggisch]

>

If I do the next :

t1 = [(round(float(x),1), round(float(y),2)) for x, y in t]

I get the long float as :

[(35.799999999999997, -0.23999999999999999), (33.299999999999997,
-2.71), (33.600000000000001,-2.4199999999999999)]

But I would have a float with 2 decimal numbers.

There is no such thing as a float with only two decimal numbers. This has
been discussed on this ML a bazillion times - what you see above are
rounding errors due to the approximation of decimal values by binary
floating points.

You can *convert a float to a string* and specify a precision when printing:

>>print "%.2f" % 2.4199999999999999999999999

2.42

Or you can use the module decimal to work with numbers base 10 - which you
can also limit to certain precisions. See a recent thread on this ML,
google for "Alternative to decimal type"
Diez