Python: Convert string (in scientific notation) to float

Question

I\'m trying to import a large .csv file containing text and numbers using genfromtxt in numpy. I\'m only interested in two columns. I have most of the import sorted out wit

Answer 1

MAybe that will be helpful for anybody, I had similar problem and I've found on stackoverflow about applying pandas to_numeric to DataFrame columns including replacing commas with dots

import re
import pandas as pd
atw[cc] = pd.to_numeric(atw[cc].apply(lambda x: re.sub(',', '.', str(x))))