Simple Python Spider

2007-08-23 Thread luca bertini
Hi everybody, i'm new to the forum so: hello everybody (should I say "world"?) ^_^ I'm trying to do a simple spider in python which: 1) ask google a query 2) parse the data I'm a python newbie so *any* help would be very, very welcommed. Thanks in advice! cheers! -- http://mail.python.org/mai

strings (dollar.cents) into floats

2007-08-30 Thread luca bertini
Hi, i have strings which look like money values (ie 34.45) is there a way to convert them into float variables? everytime i try I get this error: "numb = float(my_line) ValueError: empty string for float()" " here's the code import sys import re for line in sys.stdin.readlines():