How to strip of everything in []

Question

I am trying to strip of the leading text inside [] including the [] as below

title  = "[test][R] D123/Peace123456: panic:"
print title
title = title.strip('[.*]')
print title

OUTPUT:-

test][R] D123/Peace123456: panic:

EXPECTED OUTPUT:

[R] D123/Peace123456: panic:

Answer 1

You need non-greedy Regex to match first [] from start, and re.sub to do the replacements:

In [10]: title  = "[test][R] D123/Peace123456: panic:"

# `^\[[^]]*\]` matches `[` followed by any character
# except `]` zero or more times, followed by `]`
In [11]: re.sub(r'^\[[^]]*\]', '', title)
Out[11]: '[R] D123/Peace123456: panic:'

# `^\[.*?\]` matches `[`, followed by any number of
# characters non-greedily by `.*?`, followed by `]`
In [12]: re.sub(r'^\[.*?\]', '', title)
Out[12]: '[R] D123/Peace123456: panic:'