regex reading html

[Cameron Laird]

In article <mailman.5399.1174490841.32031.python-list at python.org>,
ben miller <wheelscribe at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>I've a program I'm working on where we scrape some of our web pages
>using Mechanize libraries and then parse what we've scraped using
>different regex functions. However, I've noticed that no matter what I
>do with the scraped content, regex functions can't find what they're
>trying to match. If I take the same text and manually feed it to the
>same regex functions, everything works as expected? Is there a
>specific text transformation I need to apply before feeding the regex
>functions?
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No.

There's an error, and it's in your understanding.  I don't 
mean to be harsh; from the information you've supplied, all
we can tell is that it's very likely you've mis-specified
one of your "regex functions".
 
To make more progress on this problem, it's VERY likely 
going to be best that you supply a specific calculation 
that gives you a specific result different from what you
expect.  The details matter.

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