Question about a regular expression

[Rob Hodges]

Rob Hodges <s323140 at student.uq.edu.au> writes:

> Yoav I H Parish <parish at ikb.mavt.ethz.ch> writes:
>
> > i have a string which could look something like
> > 
> >     a(x,y)b(x)
> >     or
> >     c(x,y,z)b(x)a(x,y)
[...] 
> I'd use a regexp (.*?) to grab the entire contents of each paren pair,

Aarghh!  Of course, I meant r"\((.*?)\)" -- you need the real parens as
well as the grouping parens.  Oops,

-Rob