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 <arm...@gmail.com> 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 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?
>
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