perl regex to python

[nlymbo at my-deja.com]

Hi all, in perl i would do this to pick apart a date string:

if ($date_str =~ m#(\d+)/(\d+)/(\d+)#) {
  print "month: $1, $day: $2, $year: $3\n";
}

How does one save the matches in a reg expression using Python??
Thanks.

sf-l8


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