Need a regular expression for following code

Question

I need a regular expression that just separates the opening square bracket[ and closing square bracket ] from the following string

String

[{"some_id":"1"},{"some_id":"3"},{"some_id":"5"},{"some_id":"7"}]

I can't find `[]` in your string. Please edit your questions to better explain your issue. — Seblor, Aug 07 '19 at 07:03
This would be a duplicate of [Learning Regular Expressions](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4736/learning-regular-expressions), except you shouldn’t use regex to parse JSON. — Biffen, Aug 07 '19 at 07:15
@Biffen I don't see how my question is a duplicate of the question you mentioned. — Krushna Joshi, Aug 07 '19 at 07:19
What about parsing JSON properly or reading the Learning Regular Expression link above or removing the 1st and last character of the string or posting a [mcve] — Pitto, Aug 07 '19 at 07:25
Is this really a string or a list of dicts? Well, you could use `re.search("\[(.*)\]", my_str).group(1)` or `my_str.rstrip("]").lstrip("[")` — palvarez, Aug 07 '19 at 07:32

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 07 '19 at 07:36

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Using regex:

import re
re.search("\[(.*)\]", my_str).group(1)

String methods:

my_str.rstrip("]").lstrip("[")

Converting to Python dict (since it's a valid JSON):

import json
json.loads(my_str)

answered Aug 07 '19 at 07:36

palvarez

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