On Feb 25, 12:20 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:00:07 -0800, Jeremy wrote: > > 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. > > Why "afraid"? What's the problem with calling int or float on the match? > > -- > Steven
He must not be Dutch :-) SCNR -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
