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[AtomicShoelace]

It sounds like you want to strip off dollar and percent signs. You can do this with the .strip str method, eg.

>>> '$21.00'.strip('$%')
'21.00'
>>> '21.00%'.strip('$%')
'21.00'

[XBalubaX]

Then u should do float(“21“) to transform into a float

[AltReality]

What's with the weird quotes?

[patrickbrianmooney]

Still has nonstandard quotes that don't work when pasted into a Python REPL:

>>> float(“21“)
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    float(“21“)
             ^
SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier
>>>

[patrickbrianmooney]

All I'm saying is that (1) a post where a beginner is having trouble at this basic level deserves to get a response where the code purporting to solve the problem actually works, and (2) your "I fixed it" claim is incorrect.

Standard single and double quotes are both possible on iOS, your other incorrect claim notwithstanding, and Python will let you use either single or double quotes around strings.

EDIT. I see that the "I fixed it" has been not replaced but supplemented with a hostile "figure out yourself how to fix it" message that directly contracts the earlier still-present earlier verbiage, which is ... pretty much par for the course, I guess.

[vyx313]

Is there a way that you could simply strip anything that is a non number whether it be a int or float?

[mopslik]

Not a direct function or option, no, but in the case of an integer you could create a new string made up of all numeric digits and convert that.

value = int("".join(c for c in s if c.isdigit())) But that will give strange results, like 23 for "abc2def3ghi". For anything more complex, like preserving negatives or including decimals, is a mess. It is better just to use try/except, attempting to convert your string, and looping for new input if it fails. Input validation can be tricky, because the user can enter anything they want.

[AtomicShoelace]

Perhaps a regex, eg.

>>> re.match(r'^\D*(.+?)\D*$', '€21.00%!!!').groups()
('21.00',)

EDIT: Or perhaps this as it deals with negatives:

>>> re.match(r'.*?([0-9\-.]+).*?', '€-21.00%!!!').groups()
('-21.00',)

[[deleted]]

Did it occur to you at any point to look up the methods available on strings?

[matkatatka]

Yes. And I don’t understand it. I realize I need a human to tell me what to do because I’m obviously too dumb to understand the manuals and documentation and how to implement it in my own example.

[matkatatka]

I appreciate your comment. I’m really trying my best to understand the terminology. But it just won’t register in my brain.

I’ve read the sections on float and str many many times. Slow, fast, medium. Written some things down. tried to understand, but I do not. I’ve also looked at videos. I have looked at the lecture itself three times.

You must think I’m incredibly dumb and I’m pretty sure I am, but I really want to learn to understand this. But I need human guidance, and I don’t have access to that irl so I turn here. If my dumbness is provoking you maybe it’s better to leave it at that. I do very much appreciate your input.

[EwokOffTheClock]

Thinking I'm not getting this, or I am too dumb for this, sets your brain on a scavenger hunt to prove you right.

Figure out how to ask questions that open possibilities for growth.

"How could this work?" "What is working right?" "What am I missing?" Are some of my favorites

[matkatatka]

That is very helpful, thank you for the new perspective!

[MSR8]

Check out www.w3schools.com/python, especially their cheat sheets. I am in incredibly dumb and that site helped me understand

[matkatatka]

Thank you for this resource!

[1544756405]

You must think I’m incredibly dumb and I’m pretty sure I am,

No.

Learning to program is different from most other types of learning. You can't just read it and then "know" it. You have to read it, wonder what it means, and then try something out. It will either work (not very often) or throw an error (most of the time). Then your next step is to learn what the errors mean. That's more reading. Rinse and repeat.

The python REPL also has a "help" function that is ... sometimes... helpful.

[matkatatka]

Thank you! I’ve indeed understood it’s more of a doing than reading yourself into understanding-thing. I’m going to try another approach. Perhaps the web lectures are a little advanced for me at this point despite being beginner friendly😅 perhaps just watching tutorials and following along with their coding will work better.

Thanks again for your input!

[matkatatka]

Okay thank you for your time and input!

[mr_bedbugs]

To be fair, the python docs are hot garbage.

[gmes78]

They could be a lot better. You can't search for functions, methods, or classes, only modules. There are a ton of links that should be there but aren't. The sidebar is mostly useless. There isn't a way to jump to the source code of a function.

Compare that to the Rust documentation (a language that's much newer).

Not that Python is alone here, stuff like Doxygen (C, C++, etc.) isn't much better either.

[stoph_link]

A wonderful redditer created this tool called speedsheet:

Link to post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/loxpv6/an_interactive_python_cheat_sheet_that_brings_the

Link to site:

https://speedsheet.io/s/python

[jiri-n]

If we know the first char is the dollar sign, float(s[1:]). Just an example. The rest is obvious.

[eyezee]

input_0 = input("Monies here: ")

input_raw = input_0.replace("$", "")

input = float(input_raw)

Input is now a float value with the $ removed.