I am trying to read a Fortran double-precision number like 1.2345D+02 into python, but I got the following error:

```
>>> float('1.2345D+02')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: invalid literal for float(): 1.2345D+02

```

By following the advice on [Python scientific notation using D instead of E](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1959210/python-scientific-notation-using-d-instead-of-e), I tried numpy but I also get the same error:

```
import numpy
>>> numpy.float("1.2345D+02")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: invalid literal for float(): 1.2345D+02

```

Is there a solution in Python to read those double precision numbers without just changing the 'D' to 'E'? 

EDIT: I replaced a bad syntax on the strings. But still I get errors.