Is there a scanf() or sscanf() equivalent?
Not as such. For simple input parsing, the easiest approach is usually to split the line into whitespace-delimited words using the split() method of string objects and then convert decimal strings to numeric values using int() or float(). split() supports an optional “sep” parameter which is useful if the line uses something other than whitespace as a separator. For more complicated input parsing, regular expressions more powerful than C’s sscanf() and better suited for the task.
