I am reading in data files from a mass spectrometer and many of the numbers are in e form e.g.
4096.26 5.785e1
4096.29 5.784e1
4096.31 5.784e1
4096.33 5.784e1
4096.36 5.783e1
I am planning on using the split function to get the two numbers out, but I wanted to know is there a function to convert the second column into python floats? I know I could do it with regular expressions but thought there might be a better way
Thank you