Vladimir Strycek wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> i have a page which when i download from web by python and put tu
> variable have something like:
>
> <body>
>
> 119/1157/43/40
> </body>
>
> neer end ( actualy this is only thing on that page.... + <head stuff> )
>
> What i need actualy is to get this values 119/1157/43/40 to
> variables...., they are changing allthe time, but they stay numbers and
> "/" is always between numbers, they are always 4
>
> I tried using re to search for it but without luck :(
>
> could somebody more experienced with re than me how to do it ?
>
> something like match = re.match('+/',htmltxt) (in htmltxt is the source
> code downloaded from web) <-- example not working ;)
You should use re.search(), not re.match() - match() only looks at the
start of the text. Try
match = re.search(r'(\d+)/(\d+)/(\d+)/(\d+)')
Then match.groups(1, 2, 3, 4) will be a tuple of the string
representations of the numbers.
Kent
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