Put all occurences in the String in quotes using regex in python

Question

I hava a long string were I can find something like this data() { <some data which is always different here> } I want to put all occurences in quotes. This is what I'm doing but it has no effect:

string = re.sub(r'data \(\) {(.*)}', r'"/1"', string)

I suppose there should be something different between curly brackets but I have no idea what...

@EDIT I realized my String look like this:

data() {
  <some white spaces> here is text
<some white spaces> }

Answer 1

Whitespace matters, the direction of slashes matters (thanks Wiktor, I overlooked that before) and that quantifier should probably be lazy. Also, if there are newlines within your text, you need to allow for that

string = re.sub(r'(?s)data\(\) {(.*?)}', r'"\1"', string)

Testing it on your sample text:

In [4]: string = """data() {
   ...:   <some white spaces> here is text
   ...: <some white spaces> }"""

In [5]: print(re.sub(r'(?s)data\(\) {(.*?)}', r'"\1"', string))
"
  <some white spaces> here is text
<some white spaces> "