@miernic asked long ago how do you extract an arbitrary string which is located between two known markers in another string.
My problem is that the two markers include Regular Expression's meta characters. Specifically, I need to extract ABCD from the string ('ABCD',), parenthesis, single quote and comma, all included in the source string. The extracted string itself might include single and double quotes, dots, parenthesis, and white space. The makers are always (' and ',).
I tried to use r' strings and lots of escape characters and nothing works.
Pleeeease....
Converting my comment to answer so that solution is easy to find for future visitors.
You may use this regex with " as regex delimiter:
r"\('(.+?)',\)"
Use above regex in re.findall so that you get only captured group returned from it.