[TriZPUG] Regular expressions- my son getting me stuck!

[Tim Arnold]

yes, BeautifulSoup is great. I also use lxml but it is more strict in
the html it can consume. If you have to parse any old html,
BeautifulSoup is your friend. Otherwise, if your html is really valid
html, lxml has a great interface and of course is useful for xml
parsing and validating.
--Tim


On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:25 PM,  <lionface.lemonface at gmail.com> wrote:
> BeauitifulSoup... I think there's also one that exposes a jquery-like syntax (pyquery?)
>
> JJ
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Browne <M.Browne at andor.com>
> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:24:22
> To: lionface.lemonface at gmail.com<lionface.lemonface at gmail.com>; Triangle (North Carolina) Zope and Python Users Group<trizpug at python.org>
> Subject: RE: [TriZPUG] Regular expressions- my son getting me stuck!
>
> Hi
>
> Thanks - can you recommend a good an html parser?
>
> Mark
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> From: trizpug-bounces+m.browne=andor.com at python.org [mailto:trizpug-bounces+m.browne=andor.com at python.org] On Behalf Of lionface.lemonface at gmail.com
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> I'd sugest using an html parsing library to do this, but the mistake in your regexp is the '.+' part - you want to match any _whitespace_ not any character - \s+ should work (\s matches any whitespace char)
>
> But also be careful with .* inside the attr, that will match " and <> too (the non greedy flag helps here but don't rely on it elsewhere!).
>
> HTH,
> JJ
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