Wildcard for string replacement?!?!

[Max M]

Perverted Orc wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> I 'm working for over a week on this script but I can't make my way out. The
> whole idea is to replace (better say delete) anything that stands between
> the <td> and</td> tag of an html file.


If that really is all you want, the easiest way to do it is probably to 
use regular expressions. Which are like wildcards on steroids.

###################################

content = " <td>test1</td>k ælk\n<td>test2</td>lkæ\nlk <td>test3</td>"

import re

itemReg = re.compile('<td>(.*?)</td>', re.I|re.S)
items = itemReg.findall(content)

for item in items:
     print item

 >>>test1
 >>>test2
 >>>test3

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