On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:43 PM, John Salerno <johnj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I sort of have to work with what the website gives me (as you'll see below),
> but today I encountered an exception to my RE. Let me just give all the
> specific information first. The point of my script is to go to the specified
> URL and extract song information from it.
>
> This is my RE:
>
> song_pattern = re.compile(r'([0-9]{1,2}:[0-9]{2}
> [a|p].m.).*?<a.*?>(.*?)</a>.*?<a.*?>(.*?)</a>', re.DOTALL)
I would advise against using regular expressions to "parse" HTML:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags
lxml is a popular choice for parsing HTML in Python: http://lxml.de
Cheers,
Chris
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