On Feb 25, 9:41 am, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:48:44 -0800, Jeremy wrote: > > I have a regular expression that searches for some numbers and puts them > > into a dictionary, i.e. > > > '(?P<integer>\d+)\s+(?P<float>\d+\.\d+)' > > > Is it possible to have the results of the matches returned as int or > > float objects instead of strings? > > No. Just convert the match with int() or float() before storing it in the > dictionary. That is, instead of: > > d[key] = match > > use > > d[key] = float(match) > > or similar.
I was afraid that was the only option. Oh well, thought I'd ask anyway. Thanks for your help. Jeremy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
