float does not parse '0.000000E+00'

[Peter Schneider-Kamp]

Paolo Redaelli wrote:
> 
> but if I run a program that does x=float(x) where x = "0.000000E+00 "
> (being a string) here's the output.

Can you give some code? I tried the following:

=== BEGIN dumm.py ===
x = "0.000000E+00 "
x = float(x)
=== END dumm.py ===

it worked just fine. What version of Python are you using?

bye
Peter
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