Massimo's worked on the first try so I went with it!
On Jun 5, 2:05 pm, "mr.freeze" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Thadeus/Massimo. I'll give each a try and let you know what I > find. > > On Jun 5, 12:57 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Try this... > > > import uuid, re > > subs={} > > while True: > > match = re.compile('<(pre|PRE)(.*)/(pre| > > pre)>',re.DOTALL).search(text) > > if not match: break > > u=str(uuid.uuid4()) > > subs[u]=match.group() > > text=text[:match.start()]+u+text[match.end():] > > text=text.replace('\n','<br/>') > > for key,value in subs.items(): > > text=text.replace(key,value) > > return text > > > although there may be a better way in BeautifulSoup > > > On Jun 5, 12:14 pm, "mr.freeze" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'm trying to replace all newline characters in a chunk of text with > > > BRs except for those inside PRE tags. I can't seem to make it work. > > > Anyregexgurus out there? > >
