On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:51 AM, boblat...@googlemail.com <boblat...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello group, > > this is the conversion I'm looking for: > > ['1.1', '2.2', '3.3'] -> (1.1, 2.2, 3.3) > > Currently I'm "disassembling" the list by hand, like this: > > fields = line.split('; ') > for x in range(len(fields)): > fields[x] = float(fields[x]) > ftuple = tuple(fields) > > Of course it works, but it looks inelegant. Is there a more Pythonisch > way of doing this? In C I'd just use sscanf.
ftuple = tuple(float(field) for field in fields) See the docs on "generator expressions" for more info. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list