Lab 03, task 7

[sevinjyolchuyeva]

I wrote this task as below:
s='hey (come) go'
re.sub('[(].*?[)]', '', s)

The output is: 'hey go'

But if s='hey (come) go (flat)' then the 'go' is deleted too.
How can I write code that output should be 'hey go'

[DavidNemeskey]

I just tried the second substitution and it does what it ought to do: it returns 'hey go '. go would only be deleted if you omitted the question mark:

In [1]: import re

In [2]: re.sub('[(].*?[)]', '', 'hey (come) go (flat)')
Out[2]: 'hey  go '

In [3]: re.sub('[(].*[)]', '', 'hey (come) go (flat)')
Out[3]: 'hey '

[sevinjyolchuyeva]

Yes, you are right :)