Re: [Tutor] atof error

2005-01-11 Thread Max Noel
On Jan 11, 2005, at 20:25, Mike Procario wrote: I got an unexpected error today using string.atof. ValueError: invalid literal for float(): -17,019.797 To me -17,019.797 looks like a perfectly good floating point number. I cannot find documentation on what the allowed range is. The problem is not

[Tutor] atof error

2005-01-11 Thread Mike Procario
I got an unexpected error today using string.atof. ValueError: invalid literal for float(): -17,019.797 To me -17,019.797 looks like a perfectly good floating point number. I cannot find documentation on what the allowed range is. -- Mike Procario "Another casualty of applied metaphysics" -