On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Frank Millman <fr...@chagford.com> wrote: > > Hi all > > I want to convert '165.0' to an integer. > > The obvious method does not work - > >>>> x = '165.0' >>>> int(x) > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '165.0' > > If I convert to a float first, it does work - > >>>> int(float(x)) > > 165 >>>> > > Is there a short cut, or must I do this every time (I have lots of them!) ? I > know I can write a function to do this, but is there anything built-in? > > Thanks > > Frank Millman >
How about int(x[:-2])? -- Best Regards, Leo Jay -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
