On 2009-07-08, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:06 PM, David<david.bra...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> I want to extract the open, mkt cap and P/E values - but apart from >> doing loads of indivdual REs which I think would look messy, I can't >> think of a better and neater looking way. Any ideas?
You are downloading market data? Yahoo offers its stats in CSV format that is easier to parse without a dedicated parser. > Use an actual HTML parser? Like BeautifulSoup > (http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/), for instance. I agree with your sentiment exactly. If the regex he is trying to get is difficult enough that he has to ask; then, yes, he should be using a parser. > I will never understand why so many people try to parse/scrape > HTML/XML with regexes... Why? Because some times it is good enough to get the job done easily. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
