Question

I want to write a simple regular expression in Python that extracts a number from HTML. The HTML sample is as follows:

Your number is <b>123</b>

Now, how can I extract "123", i.e. the contents of the first bold text after the string "Your number is"?

Answer 1

import re
m = re.search("Your number is <b>(\d+)</b>",
      "xxx Your number is <b>123</b>  fdjsk")
if m:
    print m.groups()[0]