Capture the text inside square brackets using a regex

Question

I saw question here: Regex to capture {} which is similar to what I want, but I cannot get it to work.

My data is:

Answer 1

You only have one group in your expression, so you can only ever get that one group. Group 1 is the capturing group, group 0 is the whole matched text; in your expression they are one and the same. Had you omitted the (...) parentheses, you'd only have a group 0.

If you wanted to get all matches, use re.findall(). This returns a list of matching groups (or group 0, if there are no capturing groups in your expression):

>>> import re
>>> re.findall('\[[^\[\]]*\]', '[Honda] Japanese manufacturer [VTEC] Name of electronic lift control')
['[Honda]', '[VTEC]']