Simple python 'if' statement

Question

I'm trying to filter a large tab delimited file and print out just the lines with a score of >0.999 in one of the columns, but for some reason script's output continues to just print every line. Any insights as to why my "if score > 0.999:" isn't working as intended?

import sys
import string
import re


def split_lines(lines):
for line in lines:
    if line.find('#') >-1:

        print line
    else:
        #pass
        #fields = re.split('\t',line)
        fields = line.split('\t')
        score = fields[3]
        if score > 0.999:
            print score

        #else:
        #   pass



data = sys.stdin.read()
lines = data.split('\n')

split_lines(lines)

Does your script know that your incoming data is numerical?

summea
– summea

2013-06-13 22:24:19 +00:00
Commented Jun 13, 2013 at 22:24 — summea
– summea, Commented Jun 13, 2013 at 22:24

Jean-Bernard Pellerin · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-13 22:24:07Z

3

You need to convert the string score to a number format, Decimal or float

if float(score) > 0.999

answered Jun 13, 2013 at 22:24

Jean-Bernard Pellerin

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