Madhusudan Singh wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> Madhusudan> Is it possible to convert a very long list of strings to a >> Madhusudan> list of floats in a single statement ? >> >> Madhusudan> I have tried float(x) and float(x[:]) but neither work. I >> Madhusudan> guess I would have to write a loop if there isn't a way. >> >>Try: >> >> >>> los = ["123.0", "2", "1e-6"] >> >>> map(float, los) >> [123.0, 2.0, 9.9999999999999995e-07] >> >>> [float(s) for s in los] >> [123.0, 2.0, 9.9999999999999995e-07] >> >>Skip > > > Thanks. Now, a slightly more complicated question. > > Say I have two lists of floats. And I wish to generate a list of floats that > is a user defined function of the two lists. > > I tried : > > def rpyth(x,y): > r=sqrt(pow(x,2.0)+pow(y,2.0)) > return r > > r1n=map(rpyth,x2n[1:len(x2n)-1],y2n[1:len(y2n)-1]) > > And I get an error complaining about floats.
... but the error message is a secret so you don't want to tell us what it was? It's more helpful if you actually copied and pasted the exact error traceback you see, as this avoids any potential answerer having to guess what went wrong. A brief description of what you were trying to do is also helpful, since it isn't obvious at first glance why you are omitting some of hte list elements. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
