On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 3:13 AM, candide<cand...@free.invalid> wrote: > I have a text file and the first line provides the best score of a game. This > line has the following format : > > Best score : 42 > > In order to update the score, I try to retrieve the score value. > > In C, we would manage this with the following statement : > > fscanf(foo_file, "Best score : %d", &score); > > Does Python provide an equivalent ?
Not an exact one, but it's still easily accomplished: score = int(foo_file.read().split(":").strip()) Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list