On Jun 10, 2010, at 10:00 PM, mr.freeze wrote: > Massimo's worked on the first try so I went with it!
It may have a problem when there are two <pre> blocks. > > 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? >> >>
