On Jan 16, 8:34 am, Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there > > Is there a function like strptime, which takes a string and converts it > into an array depending on a format string I provide. Like:>>> a = > '3456\tblub-blib.0.9' > >>> b = '%d\t%s-%s.%f' > >>> c = mysticalfunction(a,b) > >>> print c > > [3456,'blub','blib',0.9]
Use regular expressions: see http://docs.python.org/lib/node49.html -- Paul Hankin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
