Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:

> I would rather not do a search and replace every time before reading in > the 
> data.

There's no need to do a search and replace *before* reading the data:  read the 
data first, then have Python do the replace for you before passing each string 
to float:

>>> t = string.maketrans('d', 'e')
>>> '-14.235d+03'.translate(t)
'-14.235e+03'

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