Question

what is the regex for such a task? –>
replace “[[…:” with “[[”

That is to say, I want to replace *some text * inside [[…: with [[.

The problem with my code is that it remove *text * inside the first [[ ]]

>>> string = "Some text here [[dont remove me]] and some extra text [[remove me:and let this]] here."
>>> clean = re.sub(r'\[\[.+:', '[[', string)
>>> clean
'Some text here [[and let this]] here.'
>>>

Answer 1

re.sub(r'\[\[[^:\]]+:', '[[', string)

[^:\]] is used instead of . to constrain that the stuff to remove is limited within a tag.