johnny wrote: > I need to get the content inside the bracket. > > eg. some characters before bracket (3.12345). > > I need to get whatever inside the (), in this case 3.12345. > > How do you do this with python regular expression? >
>>> import re >>> x = re.search("[0-9.]+", "(3.12345)") >>> print x.group(0) 3.12345 There's a lot more to the re module, of course. I'd suggest reading the manual, but this should get you started. Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list