Basically, I have a code with is almost finished but I've having difficultly with the last stage of the process. I have a program that gets assigns different words with a different value via looking them up in a dictionary:
eg if THE is in the writing, it assigns 0.965 and once the whole passage is read it returns all the numbers in the format as follows: ['0.965', '1.000', '0.291', '1.000', '0.503'] However, I can't seem to get the program to treat the numbers as numbers. If I put them in the dictionary as 'THE' = int(0.965) the program returns 1.0 and if I put 'THE' = float(0.965) it returns 0.96555555549 or something similar. Neither of these are right! I basically need to access each item in the string as a number, because for my last function I want to multiply them all together by each other. I have tried two bits of code for this last bit, but neither are working (I'm not sure about the first one but the second one should work I think if I could figure out how to return the values as numbers): 1st code value = codons[x] * codons[x+1] x = (int) x = 0 print value x +=2 if (x<r): new_value = value * codons[x] value = new_value x +=1 else: print new_value This gives the error message Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python24\code2", line 88, in -toplevel- value = codons[x] * codons[x+1] NameError: name 'x' is not defined Code 2 - the most likely code prod = 1 for item in (codons): prod *= item prod print prod Gives this error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python24\code2", line 90, in -toplevel- for item in (codons): prod *= item TypeError: can't multiply sequence by non-int Anyone got any ideas? Dave. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list