Re: How to extract some text?
On Mar 8, 3:50 pm, Oltmans wrote: > On Mar 9, 3:37 am, Chris Rebert wrote: > > > Learn about the methods of the string class > > (str):http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#id4 > > > You'll probably be most interested in .split() > > OK, thanks I got it. I was trying to use Regex but .split() just > worked like a charm. Thank you ;) > > > > > Cheers, > > Chris > > > -- > > I have a blog:http://blog.rebertia.com > > The regex you were lookingfor was probably something like p = re.compile(r'href='(.*?)') when you p.match(mystring) group(1) will be your url -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to extract some text?
On Mar 9, 3:37 am, Chris Rebert wrote: > Learn about the methods of the string class > (str):http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#id4 > > You'll probably be most interested in .split() OK, thanks I got it. I was trying to use Regex but .split() just worked like a charm. Thank you ;) > > Cheers, > Chris > > -- > I have a blog:http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to extract some text?
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Oltmans wrote:
> I'm at a loss to figure out how to extract some text from a string.
> Here is a string:
>
> setTimeout("location.href='http://youtube.example.com/login.aspx'",
> 5000);
>
> and I want to only retrieve the URL from above i.e I only want this
> http://youtube.example.com/login.aspx from the above string. Any ideas/
> help is highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Oltmans
If x is your string:
>>> pos = x.find("'") + 1
>>> x[pos:x.find("'", pos)]
'http://youtube.example.com/login.aspx'
Find the first single quote, then get the character range between that
and the next single quote.
Tim
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Re: How to extract some text?
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Oltmans wrote:
> I'm at a loss to figure out how to extract some text from a string.
> Here is a string:
>
> setTimeout("location.href='http://youtube.example.com/login.aspx'",
> 5000);
>
> and I want to only retrieve the URL from above i.e I only want this
> http://youtube.example.com/login.aspx from the above string. Any ideas/
> help is highly appreciated.
Learn about the methods of the string class (str):
http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#id4
You'll probably be most interested in .split()
Cheers,
Chris
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I have a blog:
http://blog.rebertia.com
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