Removing all commas from list in Python

Question

My issue: I\'d like to add all the digits in this string \'1.14,2.14,3.14,4.14\' but the commas are causing my sum function to not work correctly.
I figured

Answer 1

I would use the following:

# Get an array of numbers
numbers = map(float, '1,2,3,4'.split(','))

# Now get the sum
total = sum(numbers)