On 19 February 2016 at 14:58, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Tim Chase wrote: >> [a long thing] > > Or just tell the parser what to expect: > > [another long thing]
If you're sure all of the words on a line are going to be numbers then >>> [float(x) for x in '2 12.657823 0.1823467E-04 114 0'.split()] [2.0, 12.657823, 1.823467e-05, 114.0, 0.0] This will of course break if anything on the line *doesn't* look like a float, but rather than jumping straight into a giant engineering exercise I'd probably start there. I'm sure there was a recent thread about returning the best fit type (i.e. int, if not then float, if not then str)? -- Matt Wheeler http://funkyh.at -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
