On 12 Jun., 16:32, tereglow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am a complete newbie to Python and am accustomed to coding in PHP/ > Perl/Shell. I am trying to do the following: > > I have a string: > > cpuSpeed = 'Speed: 1000000000' > > What I would like to do is extract the '1000000000' from the string, > and divide that by 1000 twice to get the speed of a processor in MHz. > > My understanding is that I need to 'import re' and then use re.split > to get the first part done.
It shall suffice to use string methods in this case: >>> int(cpuSpeed.split(":")[1].strip()) 1000000000 Finally you might trim the numerical value by division just as you wish. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list