Question

I am very new to python. Very new. I copied the following from a tutorial

#!/usr/bin/python

from urllib import urlopen
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

webpage = urlopen('http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/huffingtonpost/LatestNews').read

patFinderTitle = re.compile('<title>(.*)</title>')

patFinderLink = re.compile('<link rel.*href="(.*)"/>')

findPatTitle = re.findall(patFinderTitle,webpage)

findPatLink = re.findall(patFinderLink,webpage)

listIterator = []
listIterator[:] = range(2,16)

for i in listIterator:
    print findPatTitle[i]
    print findPatLink[i]
    print "\n"

I get the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 8, in <module>
    patFinderTitle = re.compile('<title>(.*)</title>')
NameError: name 're' is not defined

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You need to import regular expression module in your code

import re
re.compile('<title>(.*)</title>')