Question

I have string looking like this:

'Toy Story..(II) (1995)'

I want to split the line into two parts like this:

['Toy Story..(II)','1995']

How can I do it? Thanks.

Answer 1

This code will get you started:

'Toy Stroy..(II) (1995)'.rstrip(')').rsplit('(',1)

Other than that, you can use r'\s*[(]\d{4}[)]\s*$' to match a four-digit number in parentheses at the end of the string. If you find it, you can chop it off:

s = ''
l = [s]
match = re.compile(r'\s*[(]\d+[)]\s*$').search(s)
if match is not None:
    l = [s[:len(match.group(0))], s[-len(match.group(0)):].trim]