"Nick Coghlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>I suspect the problem would typically stem from floating point values that
>are
>read in from a human-readable file rather than being the result of a
>'calculation' as such:
For such situations, one could create a translation dict for both common
float values and for non-numeric missing value indicators. For instance,
flotran = {'*': None, '1.0':1.0, '2.0':2.0, '4.0':4.0}
The details, of course, depend on the specific case.
tjr
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