converting string to float
Hello,
I am having troubles writing a python script. Specifically, I have a string of numbers and want to replace the word ''zero'' with the integer 0. I then want to cover this string into float values. I used data.replace, and as such had to put "" around the 0 - if not there is an error as it expects a character buffer object. Am I right in saying that I can strip the "" from the 0 before converting to a float?
for data in inFile: data = data.replace ("zero", "0") data = map(float,data.strip('"')) ValueError: could not convert string to float: s
Many thanks.
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That's not a bioinformatics question but pure programming/coding, is it? Would be best suited for a _search_ on stackoverflow, e.g.: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/379906/parse-string-to-float-or-int
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In addition, you should read error messages carefully:
ValueError: could not convert string to float: s. Obviously, your data contains a string that cannot be converted, e.g. 's'.Sorry about this! I am a relatively new user of BioStars, I find it very useful for my bioinformatics learning. I realise now that this particular question was out of theme with the website.