[Tutor] Split string and convert to int

[Karl Pflästerer]

An unnamed person wrote:

> I have a string variable that represents a date. I want to pull out the
> individual parts as integers. Is there a more efficient way to do this?

> fooDate='10/3/2003'

> month, day, year = fooDate.split('/')
> month=int(month)
> day=int(day)
> year=int(year)

In [9]: fooDate='10/3/2003'

In [10]: [month, day, year] = map(int, fooDate.split('/'))

In [11]: #or

In [12]: [month, day, year] = [int(x) for x in fooDate.split('/')]


But in that case I would prefer map.

   Karl
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