Question

I need to make regex which will capture the following:

Fixed unicode text:
<br>
<strong>
   text I am looking for
</strong>

I do something like

regex = re.compile(unicode('Fixed unicode text:.*','utf-8'))

How to modify that to capture remaining text?

Answer 1

Simply prefix u (in Python 2.x, nothing in Python 3) to get a unicode string, and use parentheses to capture the remaining text, like this:

import re
haystack = u'Fixed unicode text:\n<br><strong>\ntext I\nam looking for</strong>'
match = re.search(ur'Fixed unicode text:(.*)', haystack, re.DOTALL)
print(match.group(1))

However, it looks like your input is HTML. If that’s the case, you should not use a regular expression, but parse the HTML with lxml, BeautifulSoup, or another HTML parser.