A regex boundary in Python3

Question

I am regular expression newbie. I have a boundary problem to capture a content from a line of string in Python3.

Let's say I have the line of string here:

line = "(string1),DC (string2),IC\n"

What I want is list = ["(string1)", "(string2)"]

I tried to use

list = regex.findall("(\(.*\))", line)

But it returned list = ["(string1),DC (string2)"]

`list = regex.findall(r"\(.*?\)", line)` or `list = regex.findall(r"\([^()]*\)", line)` — Wiktor Stribiżew, Dec 02 '16 at 08:49

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 02 '16 at 08:49

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You need to skip '(' and ')' and choose the word between them like this:

>>> import re
>>> 
>>> line = "(string1),DC (string2),IC\n"
>>> re.findall("\(\w+\)", line)
['(string1)', '(string2)']

answered Dec 02 '16 at 08:49

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