Converting an array of string to array of float

[Jason Swails]

I'm guessing you have something like

list1=['1.0', '2.3', '4.4', '5.5', ...], right?

You can do this:

for i in range(len(list1)):
  list1[i] = float(list1[i])

There's almost certainly a 1-liner you can use, but this should work.

--Jason

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:19 AM, joy99 <subhakolkata1234 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Group,
>
> I got a question which might be possible but I am not getting how to
> do it.
>
> If I have a list, named,
> list1=[1.0,2.3,4.4,5.5....]
>
> Now each element in the array holds the string property if I want to
> convert them to float, how would I do it?
>
> Extracting the values with for and appending to a blank list it would
> not solve the problem. If appended to a blank list, it would not
> change the property.
>
> If any one of the learned members can kindly suggest any solution?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Best Regards,
> Subhabrata.
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