How to use re.findall or re.search to get the matches not found

Question

I have a string that can be:

test = 'Something Else ( neW ) other and another (nEw ) with (nEw ) '

I need to get:

result = 'Something Else  other and another  with  '

But the best I've achieved so far is:

 import re
 f = re.findall(ur'\(\s*[nN][eE][wW]\s*\)',test)
 for i in f: test = test.replace(i,'')

How to using findall to get the part of the string NOT matching the searching pattern?

Answer 1

re.sub :

>>> import re
>>> test = 'Something Else ( neW ) other and another (nEw ) with (nEw ) '
>>> re.sub(r'\(\s*[nN][eE][wW]\s*\)','',test)
'Something Else  other and another  with  '