This is excellent. Thanks a lot. Also, what made the expression greedy? tobiah wrote: > Roman wrote: > > I am trying to filter a column in a list of all html tags. > > > > To do that, I have setup the following statement. > > > > row[0] = re.sub(r'<.*?>', '', row[0]) > > The regex will be 'greedy' and match through one tag > all the way to the end of another on the same line. > There are more complete suggestions offered, but > it seems to me that the simple fix here is to not > match through the end of the tag, like this: > > "<[^>]*>" > > -- > Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
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