hi all, cannot figure out how to draw a variable text stim (ie, the value is being drawn from a column in my csv / excel input file on each trial) where the character is a number (like 9) but it reads it in and draws it as 9.0. only having this problem with numerical stimuli, in a textstim box. thou…

Put your code in a code component Begin Routine tab to set a variable (e.g. msg) and then set the text to $msg

I solved this recently using str(int(var)) [image] Simultaneously randomize two columns in conditions file Builder Thanks very much for creating this demo!! I’m sure it will help many other users too. I’ve got a question and am receiving an error message when trying it o…

Thanks for following up – this works when I have a numerical stim, but my column contains both integers and non-ints. so str(int($myvar)) works if myvar = 9, but not if myvar = H, which it does sometimes. wondering if you have other ideas? if this was pure python I guess I would do something like $m…

thanks, this worked. for those who see this, .isnumeric() doesn’t work in psychopy for some reason (??) so you need to do a try: str(int(var)) except: str(var) kind of situation for each variable.

Numerical stimuli converting to float values for textstim

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wakecarter April 29, 2021, 6:12pm 2

I solved this recently using str(int(var))

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