Python Programming Language :: regex reading html


	regex reading html Hello, I've a program I'm working on where we scrape some of our web pages using Mechanize libraries and then parse what we've scraped using different regex functions. However, I've noticed that no matter what I do with the scraped content, regex functions can't find what they're trying to match. If I take the same text and manually feed it to the same regex functions, everything works as expected? Is there a specific text transformation I need to apply before feeding the regex functions? Thanks! -- wheelscsr@gmail.com http://wheelmind.blogspot.com In article <mailman.5399.1174490841.32031.python-l@python.org>, ben miller <wheelscr@gmail.com> wrote: >Hello, >I've a program I'm working on where we scrape some of our web pages >using Mechanize libraries and then parse what we've scraped using >different regex functions. However, I've noticed that no matter what I >do with the scraped content, regex functions can't find what they're >trying to match. If I take the same text and manually feed it to the >same regex functions, everything works as expected? Is there a >specific text transformation I need to apply before feeding the regex >functions? . . . No. There's an error, and it's in your understanding. I don't mean to be harsh; from the information you've supplied, all we can tell is that it's very likely you've mis-specified one of your "regex functions". To make more progress on this problem, it's VERY likely going to be best that you supply a specific calculation that gives you a specific result different from what you expect. The details matter. <URL: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >