parsing a line of text to get a specific number

Question

I have a line of text in the form \" some spaces variable = 7 = \'0x07\' some more data\"

I want to parse it and get the number 7 from \

Answer 1

I would use a simpler solution, avoiding regular expressions.

Split on '=' and get the value at the position you expect

text = 'some spaces variable = 7 = ...'
if '=' in text:
    chunks = text.split('=')
    assignedval = chunks[1]#second value, 7
    print 'assigned value is', assignedval
else:
    print 'no assignment in line'