newbe how to read in a string?

[Emile van Sebille]

Here, it looks like you're dealing with comma separated fields.

strFields = a.split(",")
thirdField = strFields[2]

HTH
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Emile van Sebille
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"William Famy" <william.famy at noos.fr> wrote in message
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> Hi.
>
> I am looking how to read in a string.
>
> Ex
> a='2000/12/28,24.3,87.1,65.4'
>
> I whant to extract the 87.1. In C i would code by a
> scanf("%s,%f,%f,%f\n"),...
>
> How can i do this in python?
>
> Thanks for answer.
>
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