sscanf ?

[Erik Max Francis]

Bruce Edge wrote:

> OK, that works for this case, I was looking for something more
> generic.

There is no scanf-like parsing service in Python.  Which is fine, since
scanf has problems.  If you want general parsing, you should use regular
expressions; that's what they're there for.

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