On Tuesday, March 6, 2012 4:52:10 PM UTC-6, Chris Rebert wrote:
> 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
Thanks, that was an interesting read :)
Anything that allows me NOT to use REs is welcome news, so I look forward to
learning about something new! :)
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