Replace all .png to nothing in python

Question

import re
s="fig shown abcd.png referring 12254383.png"
p=re.sub("\(.*?).png\", '', s)
print(p)

Output expected: fig shown referring

Please help to remove *.png

Answer 1

Here's a sample of the regex that works:

https://regex101.com/r/HJLzTo/1

pat = re.compile(r'[\w]+\.png')
pat.sub('', "fig shown abcd.png referring 12254383.png")

Result:

'fig shown  referring '