How to a turn a list of strings into complex numbers in python?

Question

I\'m trying to write code which imports and exports lists of complex numbers in Python. So far I\'m attempting this using the csv module. I\'ve exported the data to a file u

Answer 1

Just pass the string to complex():

>>> complex('(37470-880j)')
(37470-880j)

Like int() it takes a string representation of a complex number and parses that. You can use map() to do so for a list:

map(complex, row)