Can I specify regex group to return float or int instead of string?

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On Feb 25, 12:20 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st... at REMOVE-THIS-
cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:00:07 -0800, Jeremy wrote:
> > On Feb 25, 9:41 am, Steven D'Aprano <st... at REMOVE-THIS-
> > cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:48:44 -0800, Jeremy wrote:
> >> > I have a regular expression that searches for some numbers and puts
> >> > them into a dictionary, i.e.
>
> >> > '(?P<integer>\d+)\s+(?P<float>\d+\.\d+)'
>
> >> > Is it possible to have the results of the matches returned as int or
> >> > float objects instead of strings?
>
> >> No. Just convert the match with int() or float() before storing it in
> >> the dictionary. That is, instead of:
>
> >> d[key] = match
>
> >> use
>
> >> d[key] = float(match)
>
> >> or similar.
>
> > I was afraid that was the only option.  Oh well, thought I'd ask anyway.
>
> Why "afraid"? What's the problem with calling int or float on the match?
>
> --
> Steven

He must not be Dutch

:-) SCNR