[Tutor] Using Regular Expression to extracting string in brackets on a list

[Joel Goldstick]

On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Jing Ai <jai633 at g.rwu.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to rewrite some contents on a long list that contains words
> within brackets and outside brackets and I'm having trouble extracting the
> words within brackets, especially since I have to add the append function
> for list as well.  Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you!
>
> *An example of list*:
>
> ['hypothetical protein BRAFLDRAFT_208408 [Branchiostoma floridae]\n',
> 'hypoxia-inducible factor 1-alpha [Mus musculus]\n', 'hypoxia-inducible
> factor 1-alpha [Gallus gallus]\n' ]
>

Is the above line a python  list, or is it what you get when you read a
line of a data file.  The reason I ask, is if it is a list you can split
the list by looping of each list item.  Then just maybe try some of these
ideas:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10017147/python-replace-characters-in-string

> *What I'm trying to extract out of this*:
>
> ['Branchiostoma floridae', 'Mus musculus', 'Gallus gallus']
>
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