[Tutor] atof error

[Max Noel]

On Jan 11, 2005, at 20:25, Mike Procario wrote:

>
> I got an unexpected error today using string.atof.
>
> ValueError: invalid literal for float(): -17,019.797
>
> To me -17,019.797 looks like a perfectly good floating point
> number. I cannot find documentation on what the allowed range is.

	The problem is not the range. It's the comma that's right in the 
middle of the number. Yuck.

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