Splitting a string with brackets using regular expression in python

Question

Suppose I have a string like str = "[Hi all], [this is] [an example] ". I want to split it into several pieces, each of which consists content inside a pair bracket. In another word, i want to grab the phrases inside each pair of bracket. The result should be like:

['Hi all', 'this is', 'an example']

How can I achieve this goal using a regular expression in Python?

Answer 1

data = "[Hi all], [this is] [an example] "
import re
print re.findall("\[(.*?)\]", data)    # ['Hi all', 'this is', 'an example']

Debuggex Demo

Answer 2

Try this:

import re
str = "[Hi all], [this is] [an example] "
contents = re.findall('\[(.*?)\]', str)