In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, AMD wrote: > Actually it is quite common, it is used for processing of files not for > reading parameters. You can use it whenever you need to read a simple > csv file or fixed format file which contains many lines with several > fields per line.
I do that all the time, in Python and C++, but I've never felt the need for a scanf-type function. For reading delimited fields in Python, you can use .split string method. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
