Hi I have Python String as shown below:
<html><table border = 1><tr><td>JDICOM</td><td>Thu Sep 16 10:13:34 CDT 2010</td></tr></html>
From above string I am interested in two words
JDICOM
Thu Sep 16 10:13:34 CDT 2010
I tried find, findall, split but it did not help because of multiple regex.
I am quite new to python. If anyone knows please help.
Statutory Warning: don't use regular expressions to parse (X)HTML. You are much better off using a parser such as BeautifulSoup.
For e.g.
>>> from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
>>> html = """<html><table border = 1><tr><td>JDICOM</td><td>Thu Sep 16 10:13:34 CDT 2010</td></tr></html>"""
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
>>> for each in soup.findAll(name = 'td'):
print each.contents[0]
JDICOM
Thu Sep 16 10:13:34 CDT 2010
>>>
That said, here is a regular expression to do the same thing. Warning: this will stop working if the markup is irregular.
>>> import re
>>> pattern = re.compile('<td>(.*?)</td>', re.I | re.S)
>>> for each in pattern.findall(html):
print each
JDICOM
Thu Sep 16 10:13:34 CDT 2010
>>>