Python-get string between to characters

Question

I need to one give me the string between ~ and ^.
I have a string like this:

~~~~ ABC ^ DEF ^ HGK > LMN ^  

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Answer 1

Without regex:

>>> "".join([x for x in target if x.isalpha() or x == ' ']).split()
['ABC', 'DEF', 'HGK', 'LMN']

This takes space and alpha characters and creates a new string then splits it into words in a list

Here is my exact code from python 3 command line:

>>> target = ' ~~~~ ABC ^ DEF ^ HGK > LMN ^  '
>>> xx = "".join([x for x in target if x.isalpha() or x == ' ']).split()
>>> xx
['ABC', 'DEF', 'HGK', 'LMN']
>>>