How to split a string by commas positioned outside of parenthesis?

Question

I got a string of such format:

\"Wilbur Smith (Billy, son of John), Eddie Murphy (John), Elvis Presley, Jane Doe (Jane Doe)\"

so basicly i

Answer 1

This post helped me a lot. I was looking to split a string by commas positioned outside quotes. I used this as a starter. My final line of code was regEx = re.compile(r'(?:[^,"]|"[^"]*")+') This did the trick. Thanks a ton.