Regex Help

[Support Desk]

Anybody know of a good regex to parse html links from html code? The one I
am currently using seems to be cutting off the last letter of some links,
and returning links like

http://somesite.co

or http://somesite.ph

the code I am using is


regex = r'<a href=["|\']([^"|\']+)["|\']>'

page_text = urllib.urlopen( 'http://somesite.com')
page_text = page_text.read( )

links = re.findall(rege x, text, re.IGNORECASE)

[Miki]

Re: Regex Help

Hello,

Anybody know of a good regex to parse html links from html code?

BeautifulSoup is *the* library to handle HTML

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
from urllib import urlopen

soup = BeautifulSoup(u rlopen("http://python.org/"))
for a in soup("a"):
print a["href"]

HTH,
--
Miki <miki.tebeka@gm ail.com>

http://pythonwise.blogspot.com

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

Re: Regex Help

In message <mailman.1369.1 222101506.3487. python-list@python.org >, Support
Desk wrote:

Anybody know of a good regex to parse html links from html code? The one I
am currently using seems to be cutting off the last letter of some links,
and returning links like
>

http://somesite.co

>
or http://somesite.ph
>
the code I am using is
>
>
regex = r'<a href=["|\']([^"|\']+)["|\']>'

Can you post some example HTML sequences that this regexp is not handling
correctly?

[Support Desk]

RE: Regex Help


Thanks for the reply, I found out the problem was occurring later on in the
script. The regexp works well.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro [mailto:ldo@geek-central.gen.new _zealand]
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 6:51 PM
To: python-list@python.org
Subject: Re: Regex Help

In message <mailman.1369.1 222101506.3487. python-list@python.org >, Support
Desk wrote:

Anybody know of a good regex to parse html links from html code? The one I
am currently using seems to be cutting off the last letter of some links,
and returning links like
>

http://somesite.co

>
or http://somesite.ph
>
the code I am using is
>
>
regex = r'<a href=["|\']([^"|\']+)["|\']>'

Can you post some example HTML sequences that this regexp is not handling
correctly?

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

RE: Regex Help

In message <mailman.1450.1 222266191.3487. python-list@python.org >, Support
Desk wrote:

Thanks for the reply ...

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