Question

Given the following string:

>>> s = 'Claude Binyon [Director / Screenwriter] Walter Benjamin Hare [Play Author]'

I want to achieve the following:

'Claude Binyon,Walter Benjamin Hare,'

I have the following regex, but it is greedy, so is replacing everything after the [. How would I make the following non-greedy to work as needed?

>>> re.sub('\[.+]',',',s)
'Claude Binyon ,'

Answer 1

Try doing this :

>>> re.sub('\[.+?]',',',s)