On 2015-11-08 02:11, phamton...@gmail.com wrote:
I am having issue with converting the string into a float because there is a negative, so only end up with "ValueError: invalid literal for float(): 81.4]"def contains_words(word,msg): if word in msg: return true else: return false def get_tweet(tweet_line): part_list = tweet_line.split('\t') tweet = part_list[3] return tweet def get_longitude(tweet_line): part_list = tweet_line.split('\t') gps = part_list[0] gps_list = gps.split(', ') long = gps_list[1] long1 = long[1:] longitude = float(long1) return longitude a = get_longitude("[41.3, -81.4]\t6\t2011-08-28 19:02:28\tyay. little league world series!") print a the answer should be get_longitude("[41.3, -81.4]\t6\t2011-08-28 19:02:28\tyay. little league world series!") → -81.4
You're slicing the wrong end off 'long'. You have '-81.4]'. You want '-81.4'. You should be doing long[ : -1]. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
