for eg I have the List:
old = ['Savannah', '234Today', '4.5678', '23456','0.2342429'] How can I convert it to a list with elements with the default type
to:
new = ['Savannah', '234Today', 4.5678, 23456,0.2342429] The new list will have the elements with their default type be it float, int, long
Any help is Appreciated! Thank you
You can use ast.literal_eval and some exception handling:
>>> from ast import literal_eval >>> lis = ['Savannah', '234Today', '4.5678', '23456','0.2342429'] def solve(x): try: return literal_eval(x) except (ValueError, SyntaxError): return x ... >>> map(solve, lis) ['Savannah', '234Today', 4.5678, 23456, 0.2342429] 
literal_eval but couldn't figure it out :p. +1