python currency to float code example

Example 1: string to float python

# Use the function float() to turn a string into a float
string = '123.456'
number = float(string)
number
# Output:
# 123.456

Example 2: convert float to int python

# convert float to int 
x=3.1415
y=int(x)
print(y) #outputs 3

Example 3: how to convert cost to float in python

from re import sub
from decimal import Decimal

money = '$6,150,593.22'
value = Decimal(sub(r'[^\d.]', '', money))