Re: ask for a RE pattern to match TABLE in html

2008-07-01 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonathan Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 27, 10:32 am, "David C. Ullrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (ii) The regexes in languages like Python and Perl include > > features that are not part of the formal CS notion of > > "regular expression". Do t

Re: ask for a RE pattern to match TABLE in html

2008-06-30 Thread Jonathan Gardner
On Jun 27, 10:32 am, "David C. Ullrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (ii) The regexes in languages like Python and Perl include > features that are not part of the formal CS notion of > "regular expression". Do they include something that > does allow parsing nested delimiters properly? > In perl,

Re: ask for a RE pattern to match TABLE in html

2008-06-30 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 27, 1:32 pm, "David C. Ullrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In article > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Jonathan Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Jun 26, 3:22 pm, MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Try so

Re: ask for a RE pattern to match TABLE in html

2008-06-27 Thread Dan
On Jun 27, 1:32 pm, "David C. Ullrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Jonathan Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jun 26, 3:22 pm, MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Try something like: > > > > re.compile(r'.*?', re.DOTALL) > > > So you would pick up s

Re: ask for a RE pattern to match TABLE in html

2008-06-27 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonathan Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 26, 3:22 pm, MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try something like: > > > > re.compile(r'.*?', re.DOTALL) > > So you would pick up strings like "foo td>"? I doubt that is what oyster wants. I asked a question

Re: ask for a RE pattern to match TABLE in html

2008-06-26 Thread Jonathan Gardner
On Jun 26, 3:22 pm, MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try something like: > > re.compile(r'.*?', re.DOTALL) So you would pick up strings like "foo"? I doubt that is what oyster wants. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ask for a RE pattern to match TABLE in html

2008-06-26 Thread Jonathan Gardner
On Jun 26, 11:07 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-06-26, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Why not use an HTML parser instead? > > > > Stating it differently: in order to correctly recognize HTML > tags, you must use an HTML parser.  Trying to write an HTML > pa

Re: ask for a RE pattern to match TABLE in html

2008-06-26 Thread MRAB
On Jun 26, 7:26 pm, "David C. Ullrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >  Cédric Lucantis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Le Thursday 26 June 2008 15:53:06 oyster, vous avez écrit : > > > that is, there is no TABLE tag between a TABLE, for example > > > something w

Re: ask for a RE pattern to match TABLE in html

2008-06-26 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cédric Lucantis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Thursday 26 June 2008 15:53:06 oyster, vous avez écrit : > > that is, there is no TABLE tag between a TABLE, for example > > something with out table tag > > what is the RE pattern? thanks > > > > the following is not

Re: ask for a RE pattern to match TABLE in html

2008-06-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-06-26, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > oyster wrote: >> that is, there is no TABLE tag between a TABLE, for example >> something with out table tag >> what is the RE pattern? thanks >> >> the following is not right >> [^table]*? > > Why not use an HTML parser instead? Stating i

Re: ask for a RE pattern to match TABLE in html

2008-06-26 Thread Stefan Behnel
oyster wrote: > that is, there is no TABLE tag between a TABLE, for example > something with out table tag > what is the RE pattern? thanks > > the following is not right > [^table]*? Why not use an HTML parser instead? Try lxml.html. http://codespeak.net/lxml/ Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/

Re: ask for a RE pattern to match TABLE in html

2008-06-26 Thread Cédric Lucantis
Le Thursday 26 June 2008 15:53:06 oyster, vous avez écrit : > that is, there is no TABLE tag between a TABLE, for example > something with out table tag > what is the RE pattern? thanks > > the following is not right > [^table]*? The construct [abc] does not match a whole word but only one char, s

ask for a RE pattern to match TABLE in html

2008-06-26 Thread oyster
that is, there is no TABLE tag between a TABLE, for example something with out table tag what is the RE pattern? thanks the following is not right [^table]*? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list