Extract string within parentheses - PYTHON

Question

I have a string \"Name(something)\" and I am trying to extract the portion of the string within the parentheses!

Iv\'e tried the following solutions but don\'t seem

Answer 1

You can use a simple regex to catch everything between the parenthesis:

>>> import re
>>> s = 'Name(something)'
>>> re.search('\(([^)]+)', s).group(1)
'something'

The regex matches the first "(", then it matches everything that's not a ")":

• \( matches the character "(" literally
• the capturing group ([^)]+) greedily matches anything that's not a ")"