[version_five]

Looks like he copy pasted the python version from another forum post, and didn't look at it carefully. I'd suspect it can be made to look a lot cleaner (edit, yes, e.g. by just translating each of the main lines in the awk script to an if statement) I agree with the strawman comment.

[randlet]

    floats = [float(v) for v in integerList]

or less idiomatic

    floats = map(float, integerList)

[wiredfool]

Except that these are different -- the second returns an iterator (at least in python3). You'd need

   list(map(float, integerList)) 

for them to be equivalent.

(It doesn't matter in a lot of cases, but there are enough edges where it does. Json serialization for one)