I was skeptical too, but I was explicitly told to work and parse the input that way.

Mate was taking the piss out of you lol, nobody would parse 23.1p as 23 quid.

Thank you for the illustration. It made things much clearer.

no longer a problem

Curse these random tests I am so close to passing >:(

7 years later...

I'm updating the description to be a bit less vague... at least I'm trying: https://github.com/codewars/codewars.com/issues/2545

Reraised as issue

Fixed

Could you add random tests? You could have a look at JS for a reference.

Fixed, but needs random tests.

Approved, but needs to be fixed.

Clearly... An iterative solution works for js in half a second while it times out in Python...

changed the description to what u suggest

'alr approved some time ago'