I’m trying to convert a list of strings to an array of callable float numbers in Python, but I encounter an error. Here is a part of my code:
list=['1 2 3', '4 5 6'] for x in list: x=float(x) ValueError: could not convert string to float: '1 2 3'
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Answer
You can use a nested list comprehension for this. The first can iterate through your strings, then for each string you can str.split
and convert each element to float
from there.
>>> data = ['1 2 3', '4 5 6'] >>> [[float(i) for i in row.split()] for row in data] [[1.0, 2.0, 3.0], [4.0, 5.0, 6.0]]