macOS Python: seperate string

[lynkynpark86]

So I have a program that generates 2 ints separated by a space (eg '5 93' or '34 115'). I need to set the first to one int, and the second to another. I have no idea how large the numbers would be ('21478 61247' is a possibility, so is '6 3'). How would I do this?

 

[subsonix]

You could try something like this, the fields will be separated into two array indexes and then converted to ints.

>>> numbers = "123 456"
>>> array = numbers.split(' ')
>>> int1 = int(array[0])
>>> int2 = int(array[1])
>>> int1
123
>>> int2
456

You can re-assign the int values to array[0] and array[1] rather than to two new variables if you want to. Don't know what the limit of int is in python, you might have to use long ints instead.

 

[lynkynpark86]

You could try something like this, the fields will be separated into two array indexes and then converted to ints.

>>> numbers = "123 456"
>>> array = numbers.split(' ')
>>> int1 = int(array[0])
>>> int2 = int(array[1])
>>> int1
123
>>> int2
456

You can re-assign the int values to array[0] and array[1] rather than to two new variables if you want to. Don't know what the limit of int is in python, you might have to use long ints instead.

Thanks, I knew I could use split, but I didn't understand the concept at all.