Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulai...@helsinki.fi>: > alister writes: > >> On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 20:28:24 -0700, Yubin Ruan wrote: >>> Given a string like this: >>> >>> >>>string = "false_head <a>aaa</a> <a>bbb</a> false_tail \ >>> true_head some_text_here <a>ccc</a> <a>ddd</a> <a>eee</a> >>> true_tail" >>> >>> I want to match the all the text surrounded by those "<a> </a>", >>> [...] >> >> don't try to use regex to parse html it wont work reliably >> [...] > > Nothing in the question indicates that the data is HTML.
And nothing in alister's answer suggests that. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list