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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def str2float(text):
 """ Remove uncertainty brackets from strings and return the float. """


    try:
        # Note that the ending ) is sometimes missing. That is why the code has
        # been modified to treat it as optional. Same logic applies to lists.
        return float(re.sub(r"\(.+\)*", "", text))
    except TypeError:
        if isinstance(text, list) and len(text) == 1:
            return float(re.sub(r"\(.+\)*", "", text[0]))
    except ValueError as ex:
        if text.strip() == ".":
            return 0
        raise ex