simplest python equivalent to R's gsub

Question

Is there a simple/one-line python equivalent to R's gsub function?

strings = c("Important text,      !Comment that could be removed", "Other String") gsub("(,[ ]*!.*)$", "", strings)  # [1] "Important text" "Other String"   

Answer 1

For a string:

import re string = "Important text,      !Comment that could be removed" re.sub("(,[ ]*!.*)$", "", string) 

Since you updated your question to be a list of strings, you can use a list comprehension.

import re strings = ["Important text,      !Comment that could be removed", "Other String"] [re.sub("(,[ ]*!.*)$", "", x) for x in strings]