RegEx

[Harvey Thomas]

> I have a quick regular expression question.
> 
> I'm trying to substute all parathesis -- both left and right 
> -- with a 
> space.  I've tried:
> 
>         no_parans = re.compile('(|)', count = 99)

you need to escape the () characters
          no_parans = re.compile('\(|\)', count = 99)
> 
>         scan_line = no_parans.sub(' ', scan_line)
> 
> 
> This doesn't work.  It had the effect of inserting a space 
> before every 
> character, including the paranthesis.
> 
> What is the solution?
> 
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> James A Roush
> jar @ mminternet.com
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