Is pythonic version of scanf() or sscanf() planned?

[Aahz]

In article <b413e049-8f3f-4cdd-b702-341714763ba8 at r36g2000vbn.googlegroups.com>,
ryniek90  <ryniek90 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>But I remember that lambda function also was unwelcome in Python, but
>finally it is and is doing well. So maybe someone, someday decide to
>put in Python an alternative, really great implementation of scanf() ?

How long have you been using Python?  lambda has been there almost from
the beginning.
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