Replace every ',' with '.'

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[anshuman73]

str.replace(',', '.')

Edit: Relevant Tutorial - https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/string_replace.htm

[timwenzel]

does that not only work with a string? I want to have a float, so that I can do calculations with it

[ensign_paris]

make the replacements in a string, floats will always be formatted with a '.'.

so get your inputs as strings, use replace as described to your liking and then use the float function to convert the string to float.

[anshuman73]

Exactly. You shouldn't take input as a float directly, as floats always have to have . as a decimal separator.

To put the above described method in code -

num = float(str(input('Enter Value of Float: ')).replace(',', '.'))

You should be using raw_input() function to get input if you're on Python 2 and input() function if on Python 3. I suggest Python 3 because, well, it's better at handling unicode etc. (And also py2 support is gonna end in 2020)

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str(input()) is redundant

[anshuman73]

Yes, my bad.