Re: String manipulations


On May 28, 2005, at 2:52 PM, Lorn wrote:

Yes, that would get rid of the decimals... but it wouldn't get rid of
the extraneous precision. Unfortunately, the precision out to the ten
thousandth is noise... I don't need to round it either as the numbers
are artifacts of an integer to float conversion. Basically, I need to
know how many decimal places there are and then make the necessary
deletions before I can normalize by adding zeros, multiplying, etc.

Thanks for your suggestion, though. 

for s in numbers:
    decimal_index = s.find('.')
    decimal_places = len(s) - decimal_index - 1

Anything wrong with this? (it will mess up if there isn't a decimal but you can fix that if you want)

-- Elliot Temple
http://www.curi.us/


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