Reading in strings -> numbers ??

[Bruce Dodson]

The syntax is not equivalent in the same sense as printf vs. scanf, but the
re module will you to parse out substrings from whatever text file format
you are trying to read, and then eval() can be used on the components of the
result, to turn the "fields" that are numeric strings into Python numbers.

Bruce


Louis M. Pecora wrote in message
<280420001700308281%pecora at anvil.nrl.navy.mil>...
>Is there a Python "read-partner" for the write(string) function, e.g.,
>
>fileobject.write(" %e %e %d" % (1.2, -3.5, 10))