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

Having such list of scientific notations, you can also do this:

1. a = [9.0181446e-01, 1.3179450e-02, 4.3021311e-04, 2.3546994e-03, 3.6531375e-03, 7.8567989e-02]
2. max(a)

Output will be: 0.90181446