List of string to float

[puns]

Hi,

I'm reading from csv file using csv module and end-up with a list of string (while actual data is time stamp or float)
lst=['2010-02-15 18:22:08.918000 ', '2010-12-11 00:00:00.000000 ', '10740.0', '10740.0', '10750.0', '10745.0', '10741.2457045']

How can I convert list to date time and float using minimum line of fastest code. Fastest because csv size are upto 20 MB and have hundreds of them to read from.

Thanks,

[bvdet]

This is not intended to be the minimum line of ffastest code, but it's a start. How would you do it?

import time

def timeconv(s):
    if "." in s:
        s = s[:s.index(".")]
    return time.strptime(s, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

def convdata(s):
    for f in (float, timeconv):
        try:
            return f(s)
        except:
            pass
    return s

data = ['2010-02-15 18:22:08.918000', '2010-12-11 00:00:00.000000', '10740.0', '10740.0', '10750.0', '10745.0', '10741.2457045']

data1 = [convdata(s) for s in data]

[puns]

At the moment I'm using exactly same approach as yours bvdet.

Thanks,