Python regex to extract strings between parenthesis

Asked Dec 14 '16 at 16:14

Active Sep 01 '19 at 22:58

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I'd like to extract values between parenthesis. Let's say I have, the following code:

string = "Will Ferrell (Nick Halsey), Rebecca Hall (Samantha), Michael Pena (Frank Garcia)"
pat = re.findall(r'\((.*)\)', string)

It returns:

[u'Nick Halsey), Rebecca Hall (Samantha), Michael Pena (Frank Garcia']

But, I'd like to have:

[u'Nick Halsey, Samantha, Frank Garcia']

Any idea on how to do so?

edited Sep 01 '19 at 22:58

Brad Solomon

asked Dec 14 '16 at 16:14

simo

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Maybe you want `[u'Nick Halsey', u'Samantha', u'Frank Garcia']`? Then you just need to use `\(([^)]*)\)` – Wiktor Stribiżew Dec 14 '16 at 16:15
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Escape the parenthesis and make it non-greedy: `re.findall(r'\((.*?)\)', string)`. – alecxe Dec 14 '16 at 16:17
arfff, of course. Thanks – simo Dec 14 '16 at 16:23

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