oh? Is is the negative?

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 09:36:02 -0500, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Liam Clarke wrote:
> >>>example of (1):
> >>>---------------------------------------------------------
> >>>#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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