convert string number to real number - ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '"2"'

[George Sakkis]

On Feb 28, 5:56 pm, davidj411 <davidj... at gmail.com> wrote:

> i am parsing a cell phone bill to get a list of all numbers and the
> total talktime spend on each number.
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> I actually found a good solution.
> (snipped)

If you post 1-2 samples of the cell phone bill input, I am sure you'll
get much better solutions in terms of clarity, simplicity and
elegance, commonly known as "pythonicity" :)

George