Liam Clarke wrote:
example of (1):
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#this part of the program reads the file basin.out (the data we want to
analyze) and changes its contents to the array arr_xy
#layout of basin.out:
#1 -950.00 10.00 200 > this line contains start, interval and
number of x values;
# 0.000000E+00 > remainder is a column of y values
# -1.931787E-07
# -5.713295E-07
# -9.322559E-07
# -1.071361E-06
# -7.801342E-07
# .....
start = int(float(list[1]))
interval = int(float(list[2]))
n = int(float(list[3]))
list[1] is a string, so if I'm not missing something, start =
int(list[1]) will do just fine.
No, because list[1] is '-950.00' which will not parse as an int.
Kent
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