what is the equivalent of scanf in python?

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Shaun Hogan wrote:
> what is the equivalent of scanf in python?

   There is no direct scanf in Python - you should implement your own
parsing of input. Example:

line = sys.stdin.readline()
x, y = string.split(line[:-1])
x, y = int(x), int(y)

Oleg.
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