How to extract numbers from a string in Python?

Question

I would extract all the numbers contained in a string. Which is the better suited for the purpose, regular expressions or the isdigit() method?

Example:

Answer 1

I'm assuming you want floats not just integers so I'd do something like this:

l = []
for t in s.split():
    try:
        l.append(float(t))
    except ValueError:
        pass

Note that some of the other solutions posted here don't work with negative numbers:

>>> re.findall(r'\b\d+\b', 'he33llo 42 I\'m a 32 string -30')
['42', '32', '30']

>>> '-3'.isdigit()
False