Object propert is an integer, have to use regex to clean input, looking for good style
Question: I have some text that looks like:

    
    
    California(2342)
    

My object has a property that I need to assign the value 2342 to.

I'm looking for input on how to go about doing this, and guarding against any
potential for errors in the input.

    
    
    c = SomeClass()
    
    c.count = re.compile(r'(\d*)').groups[0]
    

Does that look ok? Or should I do an IF statement and set the count to 0 in
case the input was bad?

P.S any help in the regex would be appreciated, this is my first serious
python script.


Answer: 
    import re
    
    pat = re.compile(r'\w+\((\d+)\)')
    
    s = 'California(2342)'
    match = pat.match(s)
    if match:
        c.count = match.group(1)
        print c.count
        # '2342'
    else:
        c.count = '0'  # or 0 if numeric
    

If you want a number back instead of a string just modify:

    
    
    value = int(match.group(1))
    

