howto remove the thousand separator

[Mark Lawrence]

On 14/04/2013 19:57, pyth0n3r wrote:
> Hi,
> I came across a problem that when i deal with int data with ',' as
> thousand separator, such as 12,916, i can not change it into int() or
> float().
> How can i remove the comma in int data?
> Any reply will be appreciated!!
> Best,
> Chen
>
>

Use the string replace method thus.

 >>> '12,916'.replace(',', '')
'12916'

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Mark Lawrence