On Jan 19, 4:01 pm, Ant <ant...@gmail.com> wrote: > A 0-width positive lookahead is probably what you want here: > > >>> s = """ > > ... hdhd <a href="http://mysite.com/blah.html">Test <i>String</i> OK</ > a> > ... > ... """>>> p = r'href="(http://mysite.com/[^"]+)">(.*)(?=</a>)' > >>> m = re.search(p, s) > >>> m.group(1) > > 'http://mysite.com/blah.html'>>> m.group(2) > > 'Test <i>String</i> OK' > > The (?=...) bit is the lookahead, and won't consume any of the string > you are searching. I've binned the named groups for clarity. > > The beautiful soup answers are a better bet though - they've already > done the hard work, and after all, you are trying to roll your own > partial HTML parser here, which will struggle with badly formed html...
Ok, thank you all, I'll take a look at beautiful soup, albeit the lookahead solution fits better for the little I have to do. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list