How to convert a string to a number if it has commas in it as thousands separators?

Question

I have a string that represents a number which uses commas to separate thousands. How can I convert this to a number in python?

>>> int(\"1,000,000         


        

Answer 1

#python3 tenzin
def changenum(data):
    foo = ""
    for i in list(data):
        if i == ",":
            continue
        else:
            foo += i
    return  float(int(foo))