Python efficiently split currency sign and number in one string

Question

I have a string like \'$200,000,000\' or \'Yan300,000,000\'

I want to split the currency and number, and output a tuple (\'$\', \'200

Answer 1

You can use regex for this.

p1 = re.compile("\d")  #match digits
p2 = re.compile("\D")  match non-digits


currency_symbol = p1.split(cur_str)[0]
value = int("".join([group for group in p2.split(cur_str)]))