I'm prepping some data to insert into MySQL. Unfortunately some of the data is in the form 100½. I need to convert this to a float, but obviously float(100½) fails.
Is there a method in Python that can handle this conversion? I'm not opposed to hard coding something, but I may encounter ⅝ or other fractions in the future.
>>> float(sum(fractions.Fraction(x) for x in unidecode.unidecode('100½').split()))
100.5