Is there any stdlib or (more likely) 3rd party module that provides a similar functionality to the java.util.Scanner class [1] ? If not, would there be any interest in porting it (with a more Pythonic API of course) or are there better alternatives ?
George [1] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Scanner.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
