Regular Expression help

johnzenger at gmail.com johnzenger at gmail.com
Thu Apr 27 17:28:33 EDT 2006


If what you need is "simple," regular expressions are almost never the
answer.  And how simple can it be if you are posting here?  :)

BeautifulSoup isn't all that hard.  Observe:

>>> from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
>>> html = '10:00am - 11:00am:</b> <a href="/tvpdb?d=tvp&id=167540528&[snip]>The Price Is Right</a><em>'
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
>>> soup('a')
[<a href=""/tvpdb?d=tvp&id=167540528&">ThePrice Is Right</a>]
>>> for show in soup('a'):
	print show.contents[0]


The Price Is Right



RunLevelZero wrote:
> I considered that but what I need is simple and I don't want to use
> another library for something so simple but thank you.  Plus I don't
> understand them all that well :)




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