HMS Surprise wrote: > I suppose a one liner would look better, but I am alway leery of these > things 'breaking'. > > t = s.split('">')[-1].split('<')[0] > s ='<a href="../active/Group_Detail.php? > GroupID=G132153&SvcType=1&AType=V" class="dvLink">G132153</a>'
Only if you're competing in an obscurity competition ;) If you're really confined to built-ins (ie you can't import a single module) then just go with your original solution. Why not? If you can import modules, then you want to look at the urlparser and cgi modules, I suspect. TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list