Extract values from array

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Regular expressions?

>>> data = {'link': None, 'sprint': ['com.atlassian.greenhopper.service.sprint.Sprint@123ed5s[rapidViewId=1234,state=CLOSED,name=Sprint_2,startDate=2017-03-29T10:36:54.327-04:00,endDate=2017-04-11T10:36:00.000-04:00,completeDate=2017-04-12T12:25:51.156-04:00,sequence=12345,id=12345]', 'com.atlassian.greenhopper.service.sprint.Sprint@5rd3d5gd[rapidViewId=1234,state=ACTIVE,name=Sprint_3,startDate=2017-04-12T01:34:47.270-04:00,endDate=2017-04-25T01:34:00.000-04:00,completeDate=<null>,sequence=67890,id=67890]'], 'issueType': 'Story', 'key': 'ABCDEF-55555'} >>> sprint = data['sprint'] >>> for item in sprint: ...   print(item) ... com.atlassian.greenhopper.service.sprint.Sprint@123ed5s[rapidViewId=1234,state=CLOSED,name=Sprint_2,startDate=2017-03-29T10:36:54.327-04:00,endDate=2017-04-11T10:36:00.000-04:00,completeDate=2017-04-12T12:25:51.156-04:00,sequence=12345,id=12345] com.atlassian.greenhopper.service.sprint.Sprint@5rd3d5gd[rapidViewId=1234,state=ACTIVE,name=Sprint_3,startDate=2017-04-12T01:34:47.270-04:00,endDate=2017-04-25T01:34:00.000-04:00,completeDate=<null>,sequence=67890,id=67890] >>> import re >>> regex = re.compile(r"state=(.+),name=Sprint_[23]") >>> for item in sprint: ...     match = regex.search(item) ...     if match: ...         print(match.groups()[0]) ...     else: ...         print("no match") ... CLOSED ACTIVE

Thanks a ton, Nilamo. This worked.