Question

I have a string

"Tyson Invitational 02/08/2013','#FFFFCC')""; ONMOUSEOUT=""kill()"" >6.54"

How would I use regex to select everything after the right-pointing bracket? Aka how would I get the 6.54?

I’ve tried

\>(.*)

but I’m not sure it’s working properly. I use

m = re.search( '\>(.*)', row_out[5])

and get

<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x10b6105d0>

Not sure what the issue is.

Thanks!

Answer 1

>>> import re
>>> str="""Tyson Invitational 02/08/2013','#FFFFCC')""; ONMOUSEOUT=""kill()"" >6.54"""
>>> re.search('\>(.*)',str)
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x7f0de9575558>

same as you got before. However assign the search result to a variable and

>>> f=re.search('\>(.*)',str)
>>> f.groups()
('6.54',)