Scanning two integers separated by an unknown character

Question

I want to scan two integers in python that are separated by a character (any character, not just a space).

In C, I can just use scanf("%d%c%d",&a,&b,&c);

Is there something like this in Python?

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Nikhil Garg 12 jan. 15 at 12:18

2 answers

There is no such function in Python. You can get the String as it is and check if it is valid with regex or split

or any other function.

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Maroun 12 jan. 15 at 12:20

NPE · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-12T12:21:00+0000

I would use re.split()

for this:

In [9]: re.split(r'\D', '1024x768')
Out[9]: ['1024', '768']

or, if you also need to capture the separator character:

In [11]: re.split(r'(\D)', '1024x768')
Out[11]: ['1024', 'x', '768']

(In both cases, apply int()

to strings to convert them to integers.)