python - Errors with turning string into integer? -
    okay i'm reading in these values, used type(value) figure out being read in strings. tried convert them integers. here have:   with open('sextractordata1488.csv') f:     #getting rid of title, aka unusable lines:     _ in xrange(15):         next(f)     line in f:         cols = line.split()         object_num = int(float(cols[0]))   and received error:   valueerror: not convert string float: #   i tried   int(cols[0])   and received error:   valueerror: invalid literal int() base 10: '#'   why giving me #? read means of values text, they're not. they're numbers. gives me error every line, , every line number.   someone wanted me copy , paste sample of data, here without first 16 lines removed , ... indicate there many more columns of data there wasn't room:        1  -7.9031   0.0364     13.69501    489.4349...      2  -6.5735   0.1097     13.69501    193.0220...      3  -6.4870   0.1184     13.69501    192.5962...      4  -7.6035   0.0462     13.69...