Question

row=['alex','liza','hello **world**','blah']

i do i get everything in row[2] that is between the ** characters?

Answer 1

You could do it by hand and search for the * , but regex work too.

print re.search(r'\*\*(.*)\*\*', 'hello **world**').group(1) # prints 'world'

You need to know exactly what you’re looking for with regex, so think about what **asd**dfe** and similar edge cases should return.