Difficulties with adding spaces around equal signs using regular expressions with Notepad++

Question

I am currently trying to improve the readability of some of my python scripts by adding spaces around the equal signs. For example, currently an assignment looks like this:

Answer 1

  (?<=[\w\]\)])(=)(?=\w)

You can use this . Replacement by

 " \1 "

See Demo.

http://regex101.com/r/vY0rD6/2

Your earlier regex had no captured pattern.So just added that.