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How can I extract the time from the following array? Right now I am trying with re 

data = ['Mys--dreyn M (00:07:04): Yes', ' of course.\r\n'] time_search = re.search('(*)', "".join(data), re.IGNORECASE) if time_search: time = time_search.group(1) print time
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Just an alternative way to extract the time - use the dateutil.parser in the "fuzzy" mode:

In [1]: from dateutil.parser import parse In [2]: s = "'Mys--dreyn M (00:07:04): Yes', ' of course.\r\n'" In [3]: dt = parse(s, fuzzy=True) # dt is a 'datetime' object In [4]: dt.hour Out[4]: 0 In [5]: dt.minute Out[5]: 7 In [6]: dt.second Out[6]: 4

And, as far as your regular expression goes, I'd improve it by checking the digit pairs as well:

time_search = re.search('\((\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2})\)', "".join(data), re.IGNORECASE)
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You need to fix re expression:

time_search = re.search('\((.*)\)', "".join(data), re.IGNORECASE)
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