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 re.match:

>>> import re
>>> s = "name(something)"
>>> na, so = re.match(r"(.*)\((.*)\)" ,s).groups()
>>> na, so
('name', 'something')

that matches two (.*) which means anything, where the second is between parentheses \( & \).