On Dec 12, 7:25 am, Lee Capps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Regular expressions might be a good way to handle this.
>
> import re
>
> s = '[16, 16, 2, 16, 2, 16, 8, 16]'
> get_numbers = re.compile('\d\d*').findall
>
> numbers = [int(x) for x in get_numbers(s)]
>
Isn't '\d\d*' the same as '\d+' ?
And why would you invoke re's when str.split(',') (after stripping
leading and trailing []'s) does the job so well?
numbers = map(int, s.strip('[]').split(','))
Or if map is not to your liking:
numbers = [int(x) for x in s.strip('[]').split(',')]
-- Paul
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