[Python] Extracting characters inside quotes and manipulating strings outside of quotes

Hello everybody.
This is an English translation and modification of the article (link) posted in Japanese in advance.

When I was programming in Python recently, I had a hard time finding a library for string manipulation without parentheses, so I decided to publish the code I wrote for this purpose in a library.
I'm not sure if there is enough demand for this library, so I'm holding off on releasing it on PyPI.

Release site

Project name: Splitable str
Module name: sstr
https://github.com/bigbamboo-jp/splitable-str

How to use

Example 1: Extract the words in square brackets in a sentence

from sstr import sstr text = "Is this an [apple]? No, it's an [orange]. Then give me a [grape]." text_ = sstr(text) surrounded_words = [] for part in text_.divide_and_classify(enclosure=[['[', ']']]): if part[1] == True: word = part[0] surrounded_words.append(word[1:-1]) print(surrounded_words) # ['apple', 'orange', 'grape'] 

Example 2: Count the number of "water" in a sentence (exclude the part in double quotes from the search)

from sstr import sstr text = 'One person said that "water is infinite", but water is finite by any means.' text_ = sstr(text) quantity = text_.scount('water', enclosure='"') print(quantity) # 1 

You can check other usage examples in the README.