How to extract numbers from a String (with no black space) using Python?

Question

I have a string as the following:

s = 'ABC:10DEF:20'

I need to extract the numbers and assign it to the variables as:

ABC = 10
DEF = 20

How can I do this?

Answer 1

A simple regex to find all numerical values

import re
s = 'ABC:10DEF:20'
re.findall('[\d]{1,}',s)

Answer 2

I suggest splitting the string to a dictionary where the keys are the alpha letters and the values are the numbers.

>>> import re
>>> s = 'ABC:10DEF:20'
>>> d = dict(x.split(':') for x in re.split(r'(?<=\d)(?=\D)', s))
>>> d
{'ABC': '10', 'DEF': '20'}

Answer 3

Just use the .split() built-in method in python. For example, you can say s = s.split(":") and what it should throw is ["ABC", "10", "DEF", "20"] . Then it is simply using indices to find what you need. To actually assign the ABC as a variable I don't know, but I think you should start with the .split() hope this helps:)