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[Erik Max Francis]

Bruce Edge wrote:

> I know about all the regex stuff, but I have the format string that
> was
> used to generate a string, which I'd like to use to decompose it back
> into it's source data:
> 
> fmtstr = "%02d.%02d"
> 
> str = fmtstr % ( x, y )
> 
> # Now get x any y back using only str and fmtstr:
> 
> (x, y ) = ?

	x, y = map(int, str.split('.'))

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