Re: [Jython-users] Convert Str to Float after reading from File

[Jeff E. <jem...@fr...>]

I suggest, this to see if there is whitespace in your Amount string:

   Amount=x[0]
   try:
     x=float(Amount)
   except ValueError:
     print repr(Amount)

You might need strip() after split()

I can't tell what you are trying to accomplish by this, but it's not doing you any good getting to a parsable string.

    ltrg = ';'.join(valueList[12:13])



On 8/8/2015 12:33 PM, Peter O'Reilly wrote:
> I am reading from a file and convert a columns from a list value to a string.
>
> Then I try and convert from a str to a float, but get this error.
> x=float(Amount)
> ValueError: invalid literal for __float__:
>
> If I copy the value from the file and assign it to the str variable(Amount), the float function works as expected.
>
> It seems like it might be some type of encoding issue, anyone else have a  similar problem?  This is the code.
>
> while (lsrc):
>         valueList = lsrc.split(';')
>         ltrg = ';'.join(valueList[12:13])
>         x=ltrg.strip().split('\r\n')
>         Amount=x[0]
>         x=float(Amount)
>
> Thanks,
> PR
>
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