Bernard Lebel schrieb: > Hello, > > Let say I have a string. The value of the string might be 'False', > 'True', '3', '1.394', or whatever else. Is there a quick way to > convert this string into the appropriate data type other than with > try/except?
A quick way, yes. But also secure? No. >>> l = ['false', 'True', '3', '1.394'] >>> l = [eval(x) for x in l] >>> print l [False, True, 3, 1.3939999999999999] but this fails when it encounters a string that eval can't handle, for example 'false'. Also eval will evaluate any valid Pythin expression in the string, so you should use it only when you know *exactly* that the string can not contain anything harmful. Which is rarely the case. Chris _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
