title: Converting a List Into Float Variables
body: <p>I'm wanting to take an input as a list but use each variable as a float. Is there a simpler way to make this conversion other than explicitly like I do below, as a list is defined with strings, and I want to, for example, add rather than concatenate:</p>
  
  <pre><code>edges = input("Enter three edges: ").split(", ")  
  print("The perimeter is", (float(edges[0]) + float(edges[1]) + float(edges[2])))
  </code></pre>