Victor Polukcht wrote: > I have a couple of strings like: > > Unassigned Number (1) 32 [...] > Interworking, unspecified (127) 5 > > I need to get: > Error code (value in brackets) - Value - Message. > > My actual problem is i can't get how to include space, comma, slash.
Probably you have some escaping problem. The substitution: re.sub(r"^(.*)\s*\((\d+)\)\s+(\d+)", r'\2 - \3 - \1', row) does the required job (where "row" is one of your lines) To match a special character, such as "(", you need to escape it with a "\", because it has a special meaning in the regexp syntax. Because "\" is the escaping mechanism for Python strings too, you better use raw strings to specify the pattern. Other special character/groups matching patterns, such as "\s" to specify whitespaces, are documented, together with everything else you need, at http://docs.python.org/lib/re-syntax.html HTH Daniele -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list