Python match tuples in string












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I have a string with the format:



s = "[(1,2,'foe'), (3,5,'bar'), ...]"


I need to extract each tuple using regular expressions.



I tried stripping '[' and ']' and then apply



re.findall(r'((d+),(d+),(.+))', s[1:-1]) 


and other variants but cannot make it work.










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  • N.B: This pattern is not recursive, it's repeating. A recursive one would be like: [(1, [(2, [(3, [...])])])]
    – handras
    Nov 22 at 20:00


















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I have a string with the format:



s = "[(1,2,'foe'), (3,5,'bar'), ...]"


I need to extract each tuple using regular expressions.



I tried stripping '[' and ']' and then apply



re.findall(r'((d+),(d+),(.+))', s[1:-1]) 


and other variants but cannot make it work.










share|improve this question
























  • N.B: This pattern is not recursive, it's repeating. A recursive one would be like: [(1, [(2, [(3, [...])])])]
    – handras
    Nov 22 at 20:00
















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I have a string with the format:



s = "[(1,2,'foe'), (3,5,'bar'), ...]"


I need to extract each tuple using regular expressions.



I tried stripping '[' and ']' and then apply



re.findall(r'((d+),(d+),(.+))', s[1:-1]) 


and other variants but cannot make it work.










share|improve this question















I have a string with the format:



s = "[(1,2,'foe'), (3,5,'bar'), ...]"


I need to extract each tuple using regular expressions.



I tried stripping '[' and ']' and then apply



re.findall(r'((d+),(d+),(.+))', s[1:-1]) 


and other variants but cannot make it work.







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  • N.B: This pattern is not recursive, it's repeating. A recursive one would be like: [(1, [(2, [(3, [...])])])]
    – handras
    Nov 22 at 20:00




















  • N.B: This pattern is not recursive, it's repeating. A recursive one would be like: [(1, [(2, [(3, [...])])])]
    – handras
    Nov 22 at 20:00


















N.B: This pattern is not recursive, it's repeating. A recursive one would be like: [(1, [(2, [(3, [...])])])]
– handras
Nov 22 at 20:00






N.B: This pattern is not recursive, it's repeating. A recursive one would be like: [(1, [(2, [(3, [...])])])]
– handras
Nov 22 at 20:00














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It looks like you have a list-literal. You don't evaluate those with regex, you throw ast.literal_eval on it and are done.



>>> from ast import literal_eval
>>> literal_eval("[(1,2,'foe'), (3,5,'bar')]")
[(1, 2, 'foe'), (3, 5, 'bar')]





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    thats exactly what I needed!! Thanks very much. Sorry I didn't know about ast module.
    – Fernando Ruscitti
    Nov 22 at 19:46











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It looks like you have a list-literal. You don't evaluate those with regex, you throw ast.literal_eval on it and are done.



>>> from ast import literal_eval
>>> literal_eval("[(1,2,'foe'), (3,5,'bar')]")
[(1, 2, 'foe'), (3, 5, 'bar')]





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    thats exactly what I needed!! Thanks very much. Sorry I didn't know about ast module.
    – Fernando Ruscitti
    Nov 22 at 19:46
















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It looks like you have a list-literal. You don't evaluate those with regex, you throw ast.literal_eval on it and are done.



>>> from ast import literal_eval
>>> literal_eval("[(1,2,'foe'), (3,5,'bar')]")
[(1, 2, 'foe'), (3, 5, 'bar')]





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  • 1




    thats exactly what I needed!! Thanks very much. Sorry I didn't know about ast module.
    – Fernando Ruscitti
    Nov 22 at 19:46














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It looks like you have a list-literal. You don't evaluate those with regex, you throw ast.literal_eval on it and are done.



>>> from ast import literal_eval
>>> literal_eval("[(1,2,'foe'), (3,5,'bar')]")
[(1, 2, 'foe'), (3, 5, 'bar')]





share|improve this answer












It looks like you have a list-literal. You don't evaluate those with regex, you throw ast.literal_eval on it and are done.



>>> from ast import literal_eval
>>> literal_eval("[(1,2,'foe'), (3,5,'bar')]")
[(1, 2, 'foe'), (3, 5, 'bar')]






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    thats exactly what I needed!! Thanks very much. Sorry I didn't know about ast module.
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    thats exactly what I needed!! Thanks very much. Sorry I didn't know about ast module.
    – Fernando Ruscitti
    Nov 22 at 19:46








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thats exactly what I needed!! Thanks very much. Sorry I didn't know about ast module.
– Fernando Ruscitti
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thats exactly what I needed!! Thanks very much. Sorry I didn't know about ast module.
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