python - Extract a string between double quotes

Question

I'm reading a response from a source which is an journal or an essay and I have the html response as a string like:

According to some, dreams express "profound aspects of personality" (Foulkes 184), though others disagree.

My goal is just to extract all of the quotes out of the given string and save each of them into a list. My approach was:

[match.start() for m in re.Matches(inputString, ""([^"]*)""))]

Somehow it didn't work for me. Any helps on my regex here? Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

Provided there are no nested quotes:

re.findall(r'"([^"]*)"', inputString)

Demo:

>>> import re
>>> inputString = 'According to some, dreams express "profound aspects of personality" (Foulkes 184), though others disagree.'
>>> re.findall(r'"([^"]*)"', inputString)
['profound aspects of personality']