Replacing repeated captures

Question

This is sort of a follow-up to Python regex - Replace single quotes and brackets thread.

The task:

Sample input strings:

RSQ(nam         


        

Answer 1

You could do this. Though I don't think it's very readable. And doing it this way could get unruly if you start adding more patterns to replace. It takes advantage of the fact that the replacement string can also be a function.

s = "RSQ(name['BAKD DK'], name['A DKJ'])"
re.sub(r"^(\w+)|name\['(.*?)'\]", lambda m: 'XYZ' if m.group(1) else m.group(2), s)