How to remove commas, brackets in python using regular expression?

Question

These are the contents of my text file (eg:abc.doc):

{\'data\': [{\'name\': \'abc\'},{\'name\': \'xyz\'}]}

After opening the file in python; h

Answer 1

Looks to me like you have json, which can be easily parsed using pyjson:

import json
obj=json.loads(u'''{'data': [{'name': 'abc'},{'name': 'xyz'}]}''')

Bob's your uncle now, innit?