Help with code = Extract numerical value to variable

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Steve  <zerocostproduct at gmail.com> wrote:
>If there is a number in the line I want the number otherwise I want a
>0
>I don't think I can use strip because the lines have no standards

What do you think strip() does? Read
http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#str.lstrip
*carefully* (help(''.lstrip) is slightly ambiguous).
set(string.printable).difference(string.digits) may help.

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