Convert String to Int and Arithmetic

[Kay Schluehr]

On 12 Jun., 16:32, tereglow <tereg... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a complete newbie to Python and am accustomed to coding in PHP/
> Perl/Shell.  I am trying to do the following:
>
> I have a string:
>
> cpuSpeed = 'Speed: 1000000000'
>
> What I would like to do is extract the '1000000000' from the string,
> and divide that by 1000 twice to get the speed of a processor in MHz.
>
> My understanding is that I need to 'import re' and then use re.split
> to get the first part done.  

It shall suffice to use string methods in this case:

>>> int(cpuSpeed.split(":")[1].strip())
1000000000

Finally you might trim the numerical value by division just as you
wish.