Shwinn Ricci wrote:
however, I want to convert position to a floating point number, as the
actual cell value is in the form of X.XXX (where X = digits). When I try
float(position) I get a ValueError saying that the string could not be
converted to a float. What am I doing wrong?
Inspect the st
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Shwinn Ricci wrote:
> I am reading values from excel using xlrd and using a variable to store
> them in (as part of a loop), as such:
>
> position = sheet.cell(j, i).value
>
> however, I want to convert position to a floating point number, as the
> actual cell va
Not sure since a simple float("1.111") worked for me
try type() to see what your variable is being returned as.
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Shwinn Ricci wrote:
> I am reading values from excel using xlrd and using a variable to store
> them in (as part of a loop), as such:
>
> position =
I am reading values from excel using xlrd and using a variable to store them
in (as part of a loop), as such:
position = sheet.cell(j, i).value
however, I want to convert position to a floating point number, as the
actual cell value is in the form of X.XXX (where X = digits). When I try
float(po
