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[Bruce Edge]

In <3BFAA0FC.EB3CB91B at alcyone.com>, Erik Max Francis wrote:

> 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('.'))
> 

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

What about for this case:

	fmtstr = "x=%02d and y is %02d"

currently I'm looking at converting the %02d into \d{:2} for use with the
re module.

-Bruce.