Conversion of string to integer

[Wojciech Muła]

jupiter wrote:
> I have a problem. I have a list which contains strings and numeric. 
> What I want is to compare them in loop, ignore string and create 
> another list of numeric values.
>
> I tried int() and decimal() but without success.
>
> eq of problem is
>
> #hs=string.split(hs)
> hs =["popopopopop","254.25","pojdjdkjdhhjdccc","25452.25"]

tmp = []
for s in hs:
	try:
		tmp.append( float(s) )
	except ValueError:
	# function float raises VE, if string 's' doesn't
	# represent a number
		pass

# tmp contains a list of floats