scanf in python

[AMD]

Robert Kern a écrit :
> AMD wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I often need to parse strings which contain a mix of characters, 
>> integers and floats, the C-language scanf function is very practical 
>> for this purpose.
>> I've been looking for such a feature and I have been quite surprised 
>> to find that it has been discussed as far back as 2001 but never 
>> implemented.
> 
> The second Google hit is a pure Python implementation of scanf.
> 
>   http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/scanf/
> 

Hi Robert,

I had seen this pure python implementation, but it is not as fast or as 
elegant as would be an implementation written in C directly within 
python with no need for import.

Cheers,

André