Great thanks. You post helped me so much!
My resulting regexp is: "(?P<var1>^(.*)\s*)\(((?P<var2>\d+))\)\s+((?P<var3>\d+))" On Jan 18, 2:38 pm, "Daniele Varrazzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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, athttp://docs.python.org/lib/re-syntax.html > > HTH > > Daniele -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list