Regex help needed!

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Thu Jan 7 15:42:56 EST 2010


In article <19de1d6e-5ba9-42b5-9221-ed7246e39b4a at u36g2000prn.googlegroups.com>,
Oltmans  <rolf.oltmans at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I've written this regex that's kind of working
>re.findall("\w+\s*\W+amazon_(\d+)",str)
>
>but I was just wondering that there might be a better RegEx to do that
>same thing. Can you kindly suggest a better/improved Regex. Thank you
>in advance.

'Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use
regular expressions."  Now they have two problems.'
--Jamie Zawinski

Take the advice other people gave you and use BeautifulSoup.
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