Python regex: Matching bracket/parenthesis pairs

Question

I want to catch bracket/parenthesis pairs that are next to each other and get hold of the words inside them. In the following text I want to catch [oh](so) and [bad](things).

[oh](so)funny
[all]the[bad](things)

If I use the regex r'\[(.*?)\]\((.*?)\)' it will catch [oh](so) and [all]the[bad](things), which is not what I want.

What's a good regex to solve this?

Answer 1

Don't use .*?.

Instead use [^\]]+ and [^\)]+

In other words:

r'\[([^\]]+)\]\(([^\)]+)\)'