Changing Types in a List

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Quantitative data is often read in as strings that must be converted to numeric types before processing. The types of all list items can be converted with either a List Comprehension or the map() function.

# Convert a list of strings to integers.
items = ["1","2","3","4"]
[int(item) for item in items]
# Out: [1, 2, 3, 4]

# Convert a list of strings to float.
items = ["1","2","3","4"]
map(float, items)
# Out:[1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0]

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