Regular expression fun. Repeated matching of a group Q

[plahey at alumni.caltech.edu]

Doesn't this do what you want?

import re

DATE_TIME_RE =
re.compile(r'<td>((\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4})|(\d{2}:\d{2}))<\/td>')

test = '<td>04/01/2006</td>' \
       '<td>Wednesday</td>'  \
       '<td> </td>'     \
       '<td>09:14</td>'      \
       '<td>12:44</td>'      \
       '<td>12:50</td>'      \
       '<td>17:58</td>'      \
       '<td> </td>'     \
       '<td> </td>'     \
       '<td> </td>'     \
       '<td> </td>'     \
       '<td>08:14</td>'

out = [m[0] for m in DATE_TIME_RE.findall(test)]

for m in out:
    print m