Programming for Everybody: Assignment 06.5 Strings - edorlando07/datasciencecoursera GitHub Wiki

###Python Data Structures

6.5 Write code using find() and string slicing (see section 6.10) to extract the number at the end of the line below. Convert the extracted value to a floating point number and print it out.

text = "X-DSPAM-Confidence:    0.8475";
textFind = text.find("0")

print float(text[textFind:textFind + 6])

The output for the code above is the following:

0.8475