Formatted input function

Sat Sep 5 06:38:30 EDT 2009

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 3:13 AM, candide<candide at free.invalid> wrote:
> I have a text file and the first line provides the best score of a game. This
> line has  the following format :
>> Best score : 42
>> In order to update the score, I try to retrieve the score value.
>> In C, we would manage this with the following statement :
>> fscanf(foo_file, "Best score : %d", &score);
>> Does Python provide an equivalent ?

Not an exact one, but it's still easily accomplished:
score = int(foo_file.read().split(":").strip())
Cheers,
Chris
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