Re: float from numbers in text file

2010-06-21 Thread davidgp
On Jun 21, 5:13 pm, Stephen Hansen wrote: > On 6/21/10 4:26 PM, davidgp wrote: > > > > > > > ah, i see :P > > float("45.34") or whatever does work fine, but the problem is that i'm > > reading it from a text file. so somehow it is not a real str

Re: float from numbers in text file

2010-06-21 Thread davidgp
On Jun 21, 4:18 pm, Stephen Hansen wrote: > On 6/21/10 4:03 PM, davidgp wrote: > > > > > sorry :) > > Okay, I should be more specific: include full tracebacks and some real > copied and pasted code :) Don't throw away nice debugging information > Python gav

Re: float from numbers in text file

2010-06-21 Thread davidgp
On Jun 21, 4:00 pm, Stephen Hansen wrote: > On 6/21/10 3:54 PM, davidgp wrote: > > > i basically tried this: > > lat =0.0 > > for line in f: > >   lat = float(line) > > > but this gives an error.. does anyone know what i should to do? > > thanks, >

float from numbers in text file

2010-06-21 Thread davidgp
hello, i have a text file that contains gps coordinates that i want to load into my mysql database the file is basically in this format: 52.2375412 5.1802704 i basically tried this: lat =0.0 for line in f: lat = float(line) but this gives an error.. does anyone know what i should to do? thanks,

scraping from bundes-telefonbuch.de with python

2010-06-19 Thread davidgp
hello, i'm new on this group, and quiet new to python! i'm trying to scrap some adress data from bundes-telefonbuch.de but i run into a problem: the link is like this: http://www.bundes-telefonbuch.de/cgi-btbneu/chtml/chtml?WA=20 and it is basically the same for every search query. thus i need to