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 can use re.findall() and a simple string formatting:

>>> s = "SMT(name['BAKD DK'], name['A DKJ'], name['S QRT'])"
>>> 
>>> 'XYZ({})'.format(','.join(re.findall(r"'([^']+)'", s)))
'XYZ(BAKD DK,A DKJ,S QRT)'