Stripping scripts from HTML with regular expressions

[Michel Bouwmans]

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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 5:44 PM
>> To: python-list at python.org
>> Subject: RE: Stripping scripts from HTML with regular expressions
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
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> 
> Soooo.... you asked for help with a regex workaround, but didn't ask for
> help with the original problem, namely HTMLParser?  ;-)
> 
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I don't think HTMLParser was doing anything wrong here. I needed to parse a
HTML document, but it contained script-blocks with document.write's in
them. I only care for the content outside these blocks but HTMLParser will
choke on such a block when it isn't encapsulated with HTML-comment markers
and it tries to parse the contents of the document.write's. ;)

MFB
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