Splitting device addresses into parts

[Fabian Steiner]

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.

Regards,
Fabian Steiner