Question

I have a string like this:

"a word {{bla|123|456}} another {{bli|789|123}} some more text {{blu|789}} and more".

I would like to get this as an output:

(("bla", 123, 456), ("bli", 789, 123), ("blu", 789))

I haven’t been able to find the proper python regex to achieve that.

Answer 1

>>> re.findall(' {{(\w+)\|(\w+)(?:\|(\w+))?}} ', s)
[('bla', '123', '456'), ('bli', '789', '123'), ('blu', '789', '')]

if you still want number there you’d need to iterate over the output and convert it to the integer with int.