On 6/21/10 4:03 PM, davidgp wrote: > > sorry :) Okay, I should be more specific: include full tracebacks and some real copied and pasted code :) Don't throw away nice debugging information Python gave you, feed it to us.
> invalid literal for long() with base 10: '51.9449702'
> this is the error i'm getting when i use long(line)
Yes, "51.9449702" is an invalid literal for long. Long produces
integers: no decimal points.
However:
> and this is the error for float(line)
> invalid literal for float(): not found
Its a perfectly valid literal for float:
>>> float('51.9449702')
51.9449702
So if you're getting that error, you're doing something else that you're
not telling us.
I suspect, somehow (I'd have to see your code to be sure), that your
"line" in the second case doesn't have that number. Try it in the
interactive interpreter. float('51.9449702') works fine. I suspect your
"line", for whatever reason, contains the string "not found", as in:
>>> float('not found')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: invalid literal for float(): not found
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