How to convert a string to a number if it has commas in it as thousands separators?

Question

I have a string that represents a number which uses commas to separate thousands. How can I convert this to a number in python?

>>> int(\"1,000,000         


        

Answer 1

This works:

(A dirty but quick way)

>>> a='-1,234,567,89.0123'
>>> "".join(a.split(","))
'-123456789.0123'