How to convert strings to numbers in python while preserving fractional parts

Question

Here is example

In > int('1.5')
Out > 1
In > int('10.5')
Out > 10

But I want to keep values intact. How do you do it?

Answer 1

Integers are only numbers that have no decimals.

-4,-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,4,...,65535 etc...   

Floating point numbers or Decimal numbers are allowed to represent fractions and more precise numbers

10.5, 4.9999999

If you want to take a string and get a numerical type for non-whole numbers, use float()

float('10.5')

Here is a very simple elementary school explanation of integers

Here is the python documentation of numerical types

Answer 2

foo = 10.5

foo2 = int(foo)

print foo, foo2

10.5, 10

Answer 3

Integer can one represent whole number.

If you have a known consistent number of digest after the the comma, I recommend multiplying the number by 10 to the power of X.

Or round the number to the nearest whole number