Stripping scripts from HTML with regular expressions

[Michel Bouwmans]

Reedick, Andrew wrote:

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>> From: python-list-bounces+jr9445=att.com at python.org [mailto:python-
>> list-bounces+jr9445=att.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Michel Bouwmans
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:38 PM
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>> Subject: Stripping scripts from HTML with regular expressions
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>> Hey everyone,
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>> I'm trying to strip all script-blocks from a HTML-file using regex.
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>> I tried the following in Python:
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>> testfile = open('testfile')
>> testhtml = testfile.read()
>> regex = re.compile('<script\b[^>]*>(.*?)</script>', re.DOTALL)
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> Aha! \b is being interpolated as a backspace character:
>   \b ASCII Backspace (BS)
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> Always use a raw string with regexes:
> regex = re.compile(r'<script\b[^>]*>(.*?)</script>', re.DOTALL)
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> Your regex should now work.
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Thanks! That did the trick. :) I was trying to use HTMLParser but that
choked on the script-blocks that didn't contain comment-indicators. Guess I
can now move on with this script, thank you.

MFB