On Mar 22, 3:26 am, "Johny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the following text > > <title>Goods Item 146 (174459989) - OurWebSite</title> > > from which I need to extract > `Goods Item 146 ' > > Can anyone help with regexp? > Thank you for help > L. Here's the immediate answer to your question.
import re src = "<title>Goods Item 146 (174459989) - OurWebSite</title>" pattern = r"<title>(.*)\(" re.search(pattern,src).groups()[0] I post it this way so that you can relate the re to your specific question, and then maybe apply this to whatever else you are scraping from this web page. Please don't follow up with a post asking how to extract "45","Rubber chicken" from "<tr><td>45</td><td>Rubber chicken</td></tr>". At this point, you should try a little experimentation on your own. -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list