Question

str1 = abdk3<h1>The content we need</h1>aaaaabbb<h2>The content we need2</h2>

We need the contents inside the h1 tag and h2 tag.

What is the best way to do that? Thanks

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

The best way if it needs to scale at all would be with something like BeautifulSoup.

>>> from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup('abdk3<h1>The content we need</h1>aaaaabbb<h2>The content we need2</h2>')
>>> soup.h1
<h1>The content we need</h1>
>>> soup.h1.text
u'The content we need'
>>> soup.h2
<h2>The content we need2</h2>
>>> soup.h2.text
u'The content we need2'

It could be done with a regular expression too but this is probably more what you want. A larger example of what you are wanting could be good. Without knowing quite what you’re wanting to parse it’s hard to help properly.