On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 9:20 AM, smith jack <thinke...@gmail.com> wrote: > if it's for a single character, this should be very easy, such as > c{m,n} the occurrence of c is between m and n, > > if i want to define the occurrence of (.*?)</div> how should make it > done? ((.*?)</div>){1,3} seems not work, any method to define repeat > string using python regex?
Don't parse HTML using regexes; use an HTML parser! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags Here's a survey of Python HTML parsing libraries: http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/03/30/python-html-parser-performance/ Cheers, Chris -- http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list