Question

How to get a value of nested <b> HTML tag in Python using regular expressions?

<a href="/model.xml?hid=90971&amp;modelid=4636873&amp;show-uid=678650012772883921" class="b-offers__name"><b>LG</b> X110</a>

# => LG X110

Answer 1

Your question was very hard to understand, but from the given output example it looks like you want to strip everything within < and > from the input text. That can be done like so:

import re
input_text = '<a bob>i <b>c</b></a>'
output_text = re.sub('<[^>]*>', '', input_text)
print output_text

Which gives you:

i c

If that is not what you want, please clarify.

Please note that the regular expression approach for parsing XML is very brittle. For instance, the above example would break on the input <a name="b>c">hey</a>. (> is a valid character in a attribute value: see XML specs)