jupiter wrote: > I have a problem. I have a list which contains strings and numeric. > What I want is to compare them in loop, ignore string and create > another list of numeric values. > > I tried int() and decimal() but without success. > > eq of problem is > > #hs=string.split(hs) > hs =["popopopopop","254.25","pojdjdkjdhhjdccc","25452.25"]
tmp = [] for s in hs: try: tmp.append( float(s) ) except ValueError: # function float raises VE, if string 's' doesn't # represent a number pass # tmp contains a list of floats -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list