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

For multiple coordinates, you can read them in using pandas. Formatting is important - there should not be any white spaces. White spaces can be removed using the replace function. The outputs can be easily saved as a text file or spreadsheet. I just printed them for validation and rounded the decimals locations out to 4.

### read input file
df = pd.read_excel('dms.xlsx')

n = len(df)

for i in range(n):
  Lat_d = round(parse_dms(df.Lat[i].replace(" ", "")),4)
  Long_d = round(parse_dms(df.Long[i].replace(" ", "")),4)
  print(Lat_d, Long_d)