If condition with startswith and endswith error

Question

I have the split the data that starts from ( and ends ) x contains data likes (33)Knoxville, TN,,,(1)Basking Ridge, NJ location = "".join(x.split("()"))[4:] in this split logic what condition should I gve [3:] ??

           if name:

        if x.startswith('(') and x.endswith(')'):

            location = "".join(x.split("()"))[3:]

            print(location)
        else:
            location = x

Answer 1

Hope you are trying to split by (chars) or ,,

>>> s = '(1)Basking Ridge, NJ (33)Knoxville, TN'
>>> import re
>>> re.split(r'\s*\([^()]*\)\s*|\s*,\s*', s)
['', 'Basking Ridge', 'NJ', 'Knoxville', 'TN']
>>> t = re.split(r'\s*\([^()]*\)\s*|\s*,\s*', s)
>>> ','.join([i for i in t if i])
'Basking Ridge,NJ,Knoxville,TN'
>>>