scanf string in python

[Erik Max Francis]

Bengt Richter wrote:

> Did you use the regex parens for a reason I am unaware of?
>
>  >>> import re
>  >>> re.findall(r'(\d+)', '(1, 2, 3)')
>  ['1', '2', '3']
>  >>> re.findall(r'\d+', '(1, 2, 3)')
>  ['1', '2', '3']

Habit.  In any other context, I'd want to isolate those buggers in a
group, so that's what I wrote that here.  I wasn't specifically aware
that they were unnecessary with re.findall.

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