Convert a list of strings to either int or float

Question

I have a list which looks something like this:

[\'1\', \'2\', \'3.4\', \'5.6\', \'7.8\']

How do I change the first two to int

Answer 1

Use isdigit method of string:

numbers = [int(s) if s.isdigit() else float(s) for s in numbers]

or with map:

numbers = map(lambda x: int(x) if x.isdigit() else float(x), numbers)