Converting exponential to float

Question

This is my code, trying to convert the second field of the line from exponential into float.

outputrrd = processrrd.communicate()
(output, error) = outputrrd         


        

Answer 1

The reason is the use of comma in 6,0865000000e-01. This won't work because float() is not locale-aware. See PEP 331 for details.

Try locale.atof(), or replace the comma with a dot.