scanf in python

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <4884e77a$0$29405$426a74cc at news.free.fr>, AMD wrote:

> Actually it is quite common, it is used for processing of files not for
> reading parameters. You can use it whenever you need to read a simple
> csv file or fixed format file which contains many lines with several
> fields per line.

I do that all the time, in Python and C++, but I've never felt the need for
a scanf-type function.

For reading delimited fields in Python, you can use .split string method.