text: import re
  from pprint import pprint
  
  stripChars = '(\( *(\w+)* *\))'
  
  # stripCharRegexPattern = '|'.join(map(re.escape, stripChars))
  # pprint(stripCharRegexPattern)
  stripCharRegex = re.compile(stripChars)
  
  
  name = 'Nicholas Lee (MetDesk)'
  
  stripped = stripCharRegex.sub('', name)
  
  pprint(stripped)
  