Which of the following function convert a string to a float in python?

Question

A.  int(x[, base] )

B. long(x[, base] )

C. float(x)

D. str(x)

Answer 1

The answer is option C (float(x)). float(x) method converts x to a floating-point number.

#Convert string to float

x = '1234'

x1 = float(x)

type(x1) #check the datatype after conversion

Output:

Float

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