newbie question

[Manuel Ebert]

Hi sharon,

the problem is here that
a = 12,123
will actually create a tuple with two elements (namely 12 and 123):
 >> a = 12,123
 >> a
(12, 123)

Converting this to a string yields '(12, 123)', which is not what you  
want (sounds confusing, bit soon you'll see how many amazing things  
can be done like this :-)

Try:
 >> a = "12,123"
 >> a = int(a.replace(',', ''))

I don't know the urllib, but I suppose if you use it to fetch content  
from a web page it will return strings anyway.

On Aug 25, 2008, at 5:14 PM, sharon k wrote:

>
>
> thank you for your prompt reply.
>
> sorry seems i run into another problem, as follow;
>
> >>> a = 12,123
> >>> b = str(a)
> >>> c = int(b.replace(',', ''))
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '(12 123)'
>
> the comma has become an empty space, it cannot be converted to an  
> integer. i try the above in a winxp python command line.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Gerhard Häring <gh at ghaering.de>  
> wrote:
> sharon k wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i am new to python.
> >
> i fetch a webpage with urllib, extract a few numbers in a format as  
> follow;
>
> 10,884
> 24,068
>
> my question is how to remove the comma between the number, since i  
> have to add them up later.
>
> Strings have a replace method. Calling replace(",", "") on the  
> string will do the trick here.
>
> -- Gerhard
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