Converting List of String to Integer

Samir spython01 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 21 16:11:38 EDT 2008


On Jul 21, 3:20 pm, Gary Herron <gher... at islandtraining.com> wrote:
> Samir wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
>
> > I am relatively new to Python so please forgive me for what seems like
> > a basic question.
>
> > Assume that I have a list, a, composed of nested lists with string
> > representations of integers, such that
>
> > a = [['1', '2'], ['3'], ['4', '5', '6'], ['7', '8', '9', '0']]
>
> > I would like to convert this to a similar list, b, where the values
> > are represented by integers, such as
>
> > b = [[1, 2], [3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9, 0]]
>
> > I have unsuccessfully tried the following code:
>
> > n = []
> > for k in a:
> >     n.append([int(v) for v in k])
> > print n
>
> > Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
>
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> > Samir
> > --
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>
> You didn't tell us how it failed for you, so I can't guess what's wrong.
>
> However, your code works for me:
>
>  >>> a = [['1', '2'], ['3'], ['4', '5', '6'], ['7', '8', '9', '0']]
>  >>> n = []
>  >>> for k in a:
> ...    n.append([int(v) for v in k])
> ...
>  >>> print n
> [[1, 2], [3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9, 0]]
>
> (Although you seem to have confused variables b and n.)
>
> Gary Herron- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Hi Gary,

Thanks for your quick response (and sorry about mixing up b and n).
For some reason, the logic I posted seems to work ok while I'm using
the Python shell, but when used in my code, the program just hangs.
It never outputs the results.  Below is the code in its entirety.  Is
there a problem with my indendentation?

a = n = []
t = """
1 2
3
4 5 6
7 8 9 0
"""

d = t.split("\n")

for x in range(1,len(d)-1):
    a.append(d[x].split(" "))
print a

for k in a:
    n.append([int(v) for v in k])

print n

Thanks again.

Samir



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