How to convert degree minute second to degree decimal

Question

I receive the latitude and longitude from GPS with this format:

Latitude : 78°55\'44.29458\"N

I need convert this data to:

latitude: 78.9288888889

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Answer 1

The problem is that the seconds 44.29458 are split at ..

You could either define the split characters directly (instead of where not to split):

>>> re.split('[°\'"]+', """78°55'44.29458"N""")
['78', '55', '44.29458', 'N']

or leave the regular expression as it is and merge parts 2 and 3:

dms2dd(parts[0], parts[1], parts[2] + "." + parts[3], parts[4])

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Update:

Your method call dd = parse_dms("78°55'44.33324"N ) is a syntax error. Add the closing " and escape the other one. Or use tripple quotes for the string definition:

parse_dms("""78°55'44.29458"N""")