Scanning two integers separated by an unknown character

Question

I want to scan two integers in python that are separated by a character(any character, not only white space).

In C I can just use scanf("%d%c%d",&a,&b,&c);

Is there something similar I can do in Python?

Answer 1

I'd use re.split() for this:

In [9]: re.split(r'\D', '1024x768')
Out[9]: ['1024', '768']

or, if you also need to capture the separating character:

In [11]: re.split(r'(\D)', '1024x768')
Out[11]: ['1024', 'x', '768']

(In both cases, apply int() to the strings to convert them to integers.)