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

I have slightly modified the re:

parts = re.split('[^\d\w\.]+', dms)

And as @Falko advised to make it work, you can either use double double quotes or escape your quotes characters

parse_dms("53°19\'51.8\"N")