On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 01:57 +0100, Rhodri James wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:46:18 +0100, J. Clifford Dyer
> <j...@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 23:41 +0100, Rhodri James wrote:
> >> On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:12:14 +0100, Anish Chapagain
> >> <anishchapag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi,
> >> > I was trying to extract wikipedia Infobox contents which is in format
> >> > like given below, from the opened URL page in Python.
> >> >
> >> > {{ Infobox Software
> >> > | name = Bash
> [snip]
> >> > | latest release date = {{release date|mf=yes|2009|02|20}}
> >> > | programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]]
> >> > | operating system = [[Cross-platform]]
> >> > | platform = [[GNU]]
> >> > | language = English, multilingual ([[gettext]])
> >> > | status = Active
> [snip some more]
> >> > }} //upto this line
> >> >
> >> > I need to extract all data between {{ Infobox ...to }}
>
> [snip still more]
>
> >> You end up with 'infoboxes' containing a list of all the infoboxes
> >> on the page, each held as a list of the lines of their content.
> >> For safety's sake you really should be using regular expressions
> >> rather than 'startswith', but I leave that as an exercise for the
> >> reader :-)
> >>
> >
> > I agree that startswith isn't the right option, but for matching two
> > constant characters, I don't think re is necessary. I'd just do:
> >
> > if '}}' in line:
> > pass
> >
> > Then, as the saying goes, you only have one problem.
>
> That would be the problem of matching lines like:
>
> | latest release date = {{release date|mf=yes|2009|02|20}}
>
> would it? :-)
>
That's the one.
> A quick bit of timing suggests that:
>
> if line.lstrip().startswith("}}"):
> pass
>
> is what we actually want.
>
Indeed. Thanks.
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