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Hi Id like to know if I can tidy up my code any better than I have.
Basically the answer would be something likex = "£1,094.99 "
Im using x.strip() and x.strip("£") and x.replace(",") and then x = float(x) * 1.18 to convert figure into euros.
Any way to make this more efficient? Im a newbie so i just wondered.
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strip will not do what you want. strip removes trailing and leading whitespace. This is simply a matter of string immutability and using string1. replace(' ', '') to solve this problem.
You can even replace a whole string of text with a new line of text that you specify. The . replace() method returns a copy of a string. This means that the old substring remains the same, but a new copy gets created – with all of the old text having been replaced by the new text.
The replace() method replace() is a built-in method in Python that replaces all the occurrences of the old character with the new character.
a nice one liner i use quite often is this:
x = ''.join([c for c in x if c in '1234567890.'])
So something like this:
x = "$1,094.99"
x = ''.join([c for c in x if c in '1234567890.'])
print x
will give you an output of:
1094.99
Then you can use your float(x) * 1.18 as you have been. I find this to be a good method as it is some what robust. stray characters and dollar signs instead of pound signs shouldn't stop it from working.
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