Python regular expression to remove all square brackets and their contents

Question

I am trying to use this regular expression to remove all instances of square brackets (and everything in them) from strings. For example, this works when there is only one p

Answer 1

Try:

import re
pattern = r'\[[^\]]*\]'
s = """Issachar is a rawboned[a] donkey lying down among the sheep pens.[b]"""
t = re.sub(pattern, '', s)
print t

Output:

Issachar is a rawboned donkey lying down among the sheep pens.