Question

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import re

text = "aaaa[ab][cd][ef]"

a = re.compile("^(\w+)(\[\w+\])*$").findall(text)

print a

i need all of them but it returns:

[('aaaa', '[ef]')]

with:

a = re.compile("\[\w+\]").findall(text)

i get all of them but the first word is out…

['[ab]', '[cd]', '[ef]']

this text is random text i put this because of the stackoverflow standars quality

Answer 1

finally i do it with this code:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import re

text = "aaaa[ab][cd][ef]"

var = []
if re.match("^(\w+)(\[\w+\])*$", text):
        a = re.findall("^\w+", text)[0]
        var.append(a)
        b = re.findall("\[\w+\]", text)
        for i in b:
                var.append(i)
print var

output:

['aaaa', '[ab]', '[cd]', '[ef]']

all these solutions are great, thanks 🙂