Splitting device addresses into parts

[Steve Holden]

Fabian Steiner wrote:
> Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> 
>>Fabian Steiner wrote:
>>
>>>I often have to deal with strings like "PCI:2:3.0" or "PCI:3.4:0" and
>>>need the single numbers as tuple (2, 3, 0) or (3, 4, 0). Is there any
>>>simple way to achieve this? So far I am using regular expressions but I
>>>would like to avoid them ...
>>
>>devices = ["PCI:2:3.0", "PCI:3.4:0"]
>>for d in device:
>>  nums = tuple(map(int, d.split(':')[1:]))
>>  print "for ", d, " : ", nums
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, this doesn't work (even if I correct your typos) since
> the delimeter isn't necessary a colon - that's exactly the difficulty I
> am trying to solve.
> 
In which case you'd better redefine """like "PCI:2:3.0" or 
"PCI:3.4:0"""" so we can understand the real problem :-)

regards
  Steve
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