Question

I have this string in Python:

s = "foo(a) foo(something), foo(stuff)\n foo(1)"

I want to replace every foo instance with its content:

s = "a something, stuff\n 1"

The string s is not constant and the foo content changes every time. I did something using regex, split and regex, but got a very large function. How can I do it in a simple and concise way? Thks in advance.

Answer 1

>>> x = "foo(a) foo(something), foo(stuff)\n foo(1)"
>>> re.sub(r'foo\(([^)]*)\)', r'\1', x)
u'a something, stuff\n 1'