Question

I have list of elements like this:

['1:{test}', '2:{test}', '4:{1989}', '9:{test}', '']

My question is:

How can I remove specific characters from the elements of this list ?

As a result I want to have :

['test', 'test', '1989', 'test', '']

Any suggestions, solutions ?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

>>> re.findall(r'\{(.*)\}', '1:{test}')
['test']

Just make a loop with it:

[(re.findall(r'\{(.*)\}', i) or [''])[0] for i in your_list]

or maybe:

[''.join(re.findall(r'\{(.*)\}', i)) for i in your_list]