How can I find tag with regular expression. Python.

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RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

How can I find tag with regular expression.

I have html like this:

<div class='head'> Article TExt <div> <tag> Some ather text </tag>

How mast looks like regular expression to find text inside tags DIV whith class 'head'?

Answer 1

If you want to search in html, wouldn't it be better to use something easier, than regexp? For example PyQuery (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyquery).

Answer 2

Oh my lord, another one.

Don't parse HTML with regex!

There are many libraries specifically designed to parse HTML. See e.g. BeautifulSoup or lxml. Regex is insufficiently flexible.

import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup( <document> )
soup.findAll( "div", class = "head" )

Answer 3

This would be trivial with PyQuery:

>>> from pyquery import PyQuery as pq
>>> html = pq("""<div class='head'> Article TExt <div> <tag> Some ather text </tag>""")
>>> print html('div.head').text()
Article TExt Some ather text