Hi Forums_MP and welcome,
On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 05:55 am, forums...@hotmail.com wrote: > For starters, I googled and saw a plethora of writings on how to convert > an entire list from string to float. My interest is on select elements > in the list. The output from the print statement: print scenarioList > > is as follows > > [ '3000000', '"N"', '11400000', '"E"' ] > > I need to convert the first and third element to float. > lat = ( float ) scenarioList [ 0 ] > lon = ( float ) scenarioList [ 2 ] > > fails (invalid syntax). How can I achieve my objective. By now you have hopefully discovered that the answer is to call float as a function: lat = float(scenarioList[0]) but I wonder what in the documentation or examples you saw suggested to you that Python used the C type-cast syntax `(float)value`? Whatever it was that gave you this wrong impression needs to be fixed. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
