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  1. import re
  2. p = re.compile(r'\(([^);]+)')
  3. test_str = "1. yada yada yada (This is a string; \"This is a thing\")\n2. blah blah blah (This is also a string)"
  4. print(p.findall(test_str))
Success #stdin #stdout 0.01s 8968KB
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['This is a string', 'This is also a string']
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Python (cpython 2.7.16)
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