regex remove closest tag

[S.Selvam]

Hi all,


1) I need to remove the <a> tags which is just before the keyword(i.e
some_text2 ) excluding others.

2) input string may or may not contain <a> tags.

3) Sample input:

    inputstr = """start <a href="some_url">some_text1</a> <a
href="">some_text2</a> keyword anything"""

4) I came up with the following regex,


p=re.compile(r'(?P<good1>.*?)(\s*<a.*?</a>keyword|\s*keyword)(?P<good2>.*)',re.DOTALL|re.I)
   s=p.search(inputstr)
  but second group matches both <a> tags,while  i need to match the recent
one only.

I would like to get your suggestions.

Note:

   If i leave group('good1') as greedy, then it matches both the <a> tag.
-- 
Yours,
S.Selvam
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