Question

i have need webpage-content. I need to get some data from it. It looks like:

< div class=”deg”>DATA< /div>

As i understand, i have to use regex, but i can’t choose one.

I tried the code below but had no any results. Please, correct me:

regexHandler = re.compile('(<div class="deg">(?P<div class="deg">.*?)</div>)')
result = regexHandler.search( pageData )

Answer 1

If you want the div tags included in the matched item:

regexpHandler = re.compile('(<div class="deg">.*?</div>)')

If you don’t want the div tags included, only the DATA portion:

regexpHandler = re.compile('<div class="deg">(.*?)</div>')

Then to run the match and get the result:

result = regexHandler.search( pageData )
matchedText = result.groups()[0]