On 11/29/2011 2:53 PM, Xah Lee wrote: > fun programing exercise. Write a function “latitude-longitude- > decimalize”. > > It should take a string like this: 「"37°26′36.42″N 06°15′14.28″W"」. > The return value should be a pair of numbers, like this: 「[37.44345 > -6.25396]」. > > Feel free to use perl, python, ruby, lisp, etc. I'll post a emacs lisp > solution in a couple of days.
What a waste of time when the following works fine (probably Java): <http://transition.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/DDDMMSS-decimal.html> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
