RE Module

[Roman]

This is excellent.  Thanks a lot.

Also, what made the expression greedy?
tobiah wrote:
> Roman wrote:
> > I am trying to filter a column in a list of all html tags.
> >
> > To do that, I have setup the following statement.
> >
> > row[0] = re.sub(r'<.*?>', '', row[0])
>
> The regex will be 'greedy' and match through one tag
> all the way to the end of another on the same line.
> There are more complete suggestions offered, but
> it seems to me that the simple fix here is to not
> match through the end of the tag, like this:
>
> "<[^>]*>"
> 
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