New to Python. I can solve the problem in perl by using "split()" to an array. Can't figure it out in Python.
I'm reading variable lines of text. I want to use the first number I find. The problem is the lines are variable. Input example: this is a number: 1 here are some numbers 1 2 3 4 In both lines I am only interested in the "1". I can't figure out how to use "split()" as it appears to make me know how many space separated "words" are in the line. I do not know this. I use: a,b,c,e = split() to get the first line in the example. The second line causes a runtime exception. Can I use "split" for this? Is there another simple way to break the "words" into an array that I can loop over? Thanks. Andy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
