[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This may be a rare case where regular expressions are not a horrible, > self-defeating idea. Something like: > > delimiter = re.compile("[:\.]") > delimiter.split("PCI:2:3.0") > ...and then ignore the first entry, and map int the rest. > Alternatively, if the delimiters can really be anything, and if there > are no numbers in the first space ("PCI"), then maybe this approach:
Thank you, this solution seems to be quite satisfying :-) Regards, Fabian Steiner -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list