David Jackson wrote:
i used the csv module and saved its contents to a list.
['Date', 'No.', 'Description', 'Debit', 'Credit']
['3/17/2006', '5678', 'ELECTRONIC PAYMENT', '', '11.45']
['3/04/2007', '5678', 'THE HOME DEPOT 263 SomeCity FL', '', '25.40']
the credit/debit fields are strings.
what should i have done within the CSV module to make numbers appear as
numbers?
how can i remove the quotes to make them numbers? i realize i posted a
solution to this once before (same posting thread) but i am thinking
there is a better method.
There doesn't seem to be a way to describe how specific columns should
be processed in the csv module. You could define a conversion function
that "guesses" the best conversion, for example:
def str2num(datum):
try:
return int(datum)
except:
try:
return float(datum)
except:
return datum
for row in csv.reader(file(r'Transaction.csv')):
[str2num(cell) for cell in row]
['Date', 'No.', 'Description', 'Debit', 'Credit']
['3/17/2006', 5678, 'ELECTRONIC PAYMENT', '', 11.449999999999999]
['3/04/2007', 5678, 'THE HOME DEPOT 263 SomeCity FL', '',
25.399999999999999]
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