Python-如何从字符串列表中删除字母，将字符串更改为浮点数，转换一些浮点数并保持顺序

Question

myList=['57.43 N', '44.78 S', '59.64 S', '88.11 N']

I'm learning python, I have a list of strings representing Lat/Lon . I need to remove the N/S and when there is an S multiply by -1 , and have all strings converted to floats . I was thinking I could build an index of my values, and somehow separate the strings with S from the ones with N, create North and South lists remove the N/S with,

x=[x.remove('NS') for x in myList]
y=[y.remove('S') for x in myList] 

multiply the y list by -1 and use extend x by y so my index stays in tact. Any advice would be very lovely. Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use list comprehensions to achieve this succinctly:

newList = [-1 * float(x[:-2]) if 'S' in x else float(x[:-2]) for x in mylist]

Of course, this assumes the following about each of your elements:

1. The last two characters are always ' N' or ' S' .
2. The other characters can be converted into floats.

Answer 2

You can just split each string into number and direction. If the direction is S , multiply it by -1 :

myList=['57.43 N', '44.78 S', '59.64 S', '88.11 N']

result = []
for data in myList:
    num, direction = data.split()

    num = float(num)
    if direction == 'S':
        num *= -1

    result.append(num)

print(result)
# [57.43, -44.78, -59.64, 88.11]