ch6_strings_assign.py

# 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";
atpos = text.find("0")
print(float(text[atpos:atpos+6]))