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

[Jing Ai]

Thank you all for the suggestions! I decided to use Steven's re loop in the
end.

Joel, what i meant earlier was that the link you sent seems to suggest me
to replace some characters in the list and I'm not sure how it would work...





On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Jing Ai <jai633 at g.rwu.edu> wrote:
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>> Thanks, but I don't think I can get out the string in the brackets by
>> only replacing other items...(there's too many things to replace and may
>> interfere with the items within the string).
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> I am not sure what you mean by your previous sentence.  Check out Steven's
> excellent answer.  Also, remember to reply to the list, or no one will see
> your question.
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> Good luck
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>> On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick at gmail.com
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>>> On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Jing Ai <jai633 at g.rwu.edu> wrote:
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>>>> Hello,
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>>>> 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' ]
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>>> 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:
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>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10017147/python-replace-characters-in-string
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>>>>  *What I'm trying to extract out of this*:
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>>>> ['Branchiostoma floridae', 'Mus musculus', 'Gallus gallus']
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