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To transform a string into Int or Float in Python, simply put, can be done using the following lines:

"57" to int:
Int ("57")
57

"23.578" to float:
Float ("23578")
23,578

These lines work perfectly when you know exactly the origin of your data. At times, however, you don’t know the data type of the string. We will complete the answer addressing some of these different cases.
 

Checking if the string value is an int or float in Python

If you use the conversion method for int in a string that was decimal values, it will send an error. Thus, we can use the code below to turn a string into int or float:

def a (s):
try:
return int (s)
except ValueError:
return  float (s)

Be very careful with this code because it will be mixing two types of numbers, which can cause problems in later operations using them.
 

To convert a float to int

If necessary subsequently conversion of a float created into an integer you can use this line:

Int (float (s))

Here we see what it does:

a = "273557"
Float (a)
273,557
int(float(a))
273

To round float in the transformation to int

The above method simply ignores the decimal values. To take them into account is necessary to use the following:

int (round (float (s)))

This shows to the system that it has to do a round operation. It will always round down. If you wanted a rounding up, do something like this:

int (round (float (s + 0.5)))

How to transform a string list

If you know exactly the type of data inside of the string, and it comes in a list format, you can make the transformation of all at once, using the code below:

x = ["527.1", "237.23", "876.54"]
Map (float x)
[527.1, 237.23, 876.54]

It also works with conversion to int.

If you know more ways how to make this conversion, share in the comments area below.

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