python float to in int conversion

Question

I have an issue that really drives me mad. Normally doing int(20.0) would result in 20. So far so good. But:

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Answer 1

It looks like the problem is that gex_dict[i] actually returns a string representation of a float '20.0'. Although int() has the capability to cast from a float to an int, and a string representation of an integer to an int. It does not have the capability to cast from a string representation of a float to an int.

The documentation for int can be found here: http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#int