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Python regex to find nested parentheses outside double quotes

I have an input string which contains parenthesis inside and outside double quotes.These parentheses can be nested. I want to strip off strings with parentheses present only outside of double quotes. I...

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Answer by Andrej Kesely for Python regex to find nested parentheses outside...

If your parentheses are balanced (with help of this answer):import reinput_string = '''"Hello World (Don't want to strip this (also not this))" anything outside round brackets should remain as is(strip...

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Answer by Jan for Python regex to find nested parentheses outside double quotes

Using regex instead of re, you could go with"[^"]+"(*SKIP)(*FAIL) # ignore anything between double quotes| # or\( (?:[^()]*|(?R))+ # match nested parentheses\)See a demo on regex101.com.In Python this...

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