Python re expr from Perl to Python

[Carsten Haese]

On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 15:43 +0100, Michael M. wrote:
> In Perl, it was:
> 
> 
>    ## Example: "Abc | def | ghi | jkl"
>    ##       -> "Abc ghi jkl"
>    ## Take only the text betewwn the 2nd pipe (=cut the text in the 1st 
> pipe).
>    $na =~ s/\ \|(.*?)\ \|(.*?)\ \|/$2/g;
> 
>    ## -- remove [ and ] in text
>    $na =~ s/\[//g;
>    $na =~ s/\]//g;
>    # print "DEB: \"$na\"\n";
> 
> 
> # input string
> na="Abc | def | ghi | jkl [gugu]"
> # output
> na="Abc ghi jkl gugu"
> 
> 
> How is it done in Python?

Here's an almost literal translation:

##################################################
import re
na = re.sub(r"\ \|(.*?)\ \|(.*?)\ \|", r"\2", na)
na = na.replace("[", "")
na = na.replace("]", "")
##################################################

Background information on regular expressions in Python can be found
here:

http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-re.html

Hope this helps,

Carsten.