Float() does not work with numbers over 1,000

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In a button event handler I was converting the .text value of a button to a float.

It errored when I was doing the equivalent of float(“1,000”) and was fine on anything without a comma.

Ultimately I just referenced the tag value using tag.read rather than the .text value. It seems like the float() function would be smart enough to ignore the commas.

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It sounds like you are using Python to convert this string to a float. Unfortunately Python’s float() conversion doesn’t like commas, but you could always remove them.text = "1,000.93" newText = text.replace(",", "") print float(newText)