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

>>> filter(str.isdigit, s)
'200000000'
>>> filter(lambda x: not x.isdigit() and x != ',', s)
'$'
>>> 
>>> (filter(lambda x: not x.isdigit() and x != ',' ,s), filter(str.isdigit, s))
('$', '200000000')
>>>