On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Danny Wong (dannwong)
<dannw...@cisco.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>        If I get multiline standard output from a command. How can I
> retrieve this part of the string "(1006)"
> Example:
>
> #Committing...
> #Workspace: (1003) "My OS_8.12.0 Work" <-> (1004) "OS_8.12.0"
> #  Component: (1005) "he-Group" <-> (1004) "OS_8.12.0"
> #    Outgoing:
> #      Change sets:
> #        (1006)  *--@  <No comment>
> #          Changes:
> #            ---c- /he-Group/o-PI/target/config/common-ngp/makefile

Assuming the #s aren't in the actual output:

import re
pat = re.compile("^ *(\\([^)]+\\))", re.MULTILINE)
print(pat.search(your_str).group(1))

Obviously can vary depending on how you want to go about defining the
target string.

Cheers,
Chris

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