extracting numbers with decimal places from a string

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Peter Otten wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> […]  But float() is always necessary for computing the sum and suffices 
>> indeed together with s.split() if s is just a comma-separated list of 
>> numeric strings with optional whitespace leading and trailing the comma:
>> 
>>   print(sum(map(lambda x: float(x), s.split(',')))
>> 
>> Please trim your quotes to the relevant minimum.
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Hm, can you explain what this
> 
> lambda x: float(x)
> 
> is supposed to achieve? I mean other than to confuse a newbie...

  print(sum(map(float, s.split(','))))

suffices in this case, of course.

I could have done without the snide remarks.

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