Convert, or unformat, a string to variables (like format(), but in reverse) in Python

Question

I have strings of the form Version 1.4.0\\n and Version 1.15.6\\n, and I\'d like a simple way of extracting the three numbers from them. I know I

Answer 1

>>> import re
>>> re.findall('(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)', 'Version 1.15.6\n')
[('1', '15', '6')]