Want to extract numbers from a string using Python? If you only want to extract only positive integers, try the following:
1 2 3 | >>> str = "h3110 23 cat 444.4 rabbit 11 2 dog" >>> [int(s) for s in str.split() if s.isdigit()] [23, 11, 2] |
I would argue that this is better than the regex example for three reasons. First, you don’t need another module; secondly, it’s more readable because you don’t need to parse the regex mini-language; and third, it is faster (and thus likely more pythonic):
1 2 3 4 5 | python -m timeit -s "str = 'h3110 23 cat 444.4 rabbit 11 2 dog' * 1000" "[s for s in str.split() if s.isdigit()]" 100 loops, best of 3: 2.84 msec per loop python -m timeit -s "import re" "str = 'h3110 23 cat 444.4 rabbit 11 2 dog' * 1000" "re.findall('\\b\\d+\\b', str)" 100 loops, best of 3: 5.66 msec per loop |
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