How can I convert a string with dot and comma into a float in Python

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How can I convert a string like 123 456 908 to float 123456 908 in Python

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What about this    my string    123 456 908   commas removed   my string replace            remove comma separation  my float   float commas removed    turn from string to float    In short   my float   float my string replace

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Just remove the   with replace     float  123 456 908  replace

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If you have a comma as decimals separator and the dot as thousands separator  you can do   s   s replace         replace          number   float s    Hope it will help

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s     123 456 908  print float s replace

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Or instead of treating the commas as garbage to be filtered out  we could treat the overall string as a localized formatting of the float  and use the localization services   from locale import atof  setlocale  LC NUMERIC setlocale LC NUMERIC        set to your default locale  for me this is    English Canada 1252   Or you could explicitly specify a locale in which floats   are formatted the way that you describe  if that s not how your locale works    atof  123 456     123456 0   To demonstrate  let s explicitly try a locale in which the comma is a   decimal point  setlocale LC NUMERIC   French Canada 1252   atof  123 456     123 456

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If you don t know the locale and you want to parse any kind of number  use this parseNumber text  function  It is not perfect but take into account most cases     gt  gt  gt  parseNumber  a 125 00       125  gt  gt  gt  parseNumber  100 000 000   100000  gt  gt  gt  parseNumber  100 000 000   100000  gt  gt  gt  parseNumber  100 000 000   100000000  gt  gt  gt  parseNumber  100 000 000   100000000  gt  gt  gt  parseNumber  100 001 001   100 001  gt  gt  gt  parseNumber    3   0 3  gt  gt  gt  parseNumber   003   0 003  gt  gt  gt  parseNumber   003 55   0 003  gt  gt  gt  parseNumber  3 005   3005  gt  gt  gt  parseNumber  1 190 00       1190  gt  gt  gt  parseNumber  1190 00       1190  gt  gt  gt  parseNumber  1 190 00       1190  gt  gt  gt  parseNumber   1190 00   1190  gt  gt  gt  parseNumber   1 190 99   1190 99  gt  gt  gt  parseNumber  1 000 000 3   1000000 3  gt  gt  gt  parseNumber  1 0002 1 2   10002 1  gt  gt  gt  parseNumber       gt  gt  gt  parseNumber None    gt  gt  gt  parseNumber 1  1  gt  gt  gt  parseNumber 1 1  1 1  gt  gt  gt  parseNumber  rrr1  2o   1  gt  gt  gt  parseNumber  rrr   o     gt  gt  gt  parseNumber  rrr1rrr   1

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Here s a simple way I wrote up for you       gt  gt  gt  number    123 456 789 908  replace             123456789 908   gt  gt  gt  float number  123456789 908

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Better solution for different currency formats   def text currency to float text     t   text   dot pos   t rfind        comma pos   t rfind        if comma pos  gt  dot pos      t   t replace              t   t replace             else      t   t replace             return float t

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Just replace  with replace     f   float  123 456 908  replace           print type f   type   will show you that it has converted into a float

[python] How can I convert a string with dot and comma into a float in Python

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