Extract only first match using python regular expression

Question

I have a string as follows:

course_name = \"Post Graduate Certificate Programme in Retail Management (PGCPRM) (Online)\"

I want to extract only

Answer 1

To extract value within first parenthesis

>>> course_name = "Post Graduate Certificate Programme in Retail Management (PGCPRM) (Online)"
>>> x = re.search(r'\(.*?\)',course_name).group()
>>> x
'(PGCPRM)'

And then to replace

>>> course_name.replace(x,'')
'Post Graduate Certificate Programme in Retail Management  (Online)'