On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Jing Ai <jai...@g.rwu.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to rewrite some contents on a long list that contains words > within brackets and outside brackets and I'm having trouble extracting the > words within brackets, especially since I have to add the append function > for list as well. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you! > > *An example of list*: > > ['hypothetical protein BRAFLDRAFT_208408 [Branchiostoma floridae]\n', > 'hypoxia-inducible factor 1-alpha [Mus musculus]\n', 'hypoxia-inducible > factor 1-alpha [Gallus gallus]\n' ] >
Is the above line a python list, or is it what you get when you read a line of a data file. The reason I ask, is if it is a list you can split the list by looping of each list item. Then just maybe try some of these ideas: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10017147/python-replace-characters-in-string > *What I'm trying to extract out of this*: > > ['Branchiostoma floridae', 'Mus musculus', 'Gallus gallus'] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com
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