Please help extract text from HTML tags using Python Regex

Question

I have the following HTML text :

Country/<i>List it here</i><br><font color="#ff00ff">Dubai</font><br><br>

How do I extract 'Dubai' out of the above HTML? I have few hundreds such lines, kind of urgent, so not researching BeautifulSoup or XML parser implementation.

Thanks much!

Laurence Gonsalves · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-02 21:27:10Z

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Since you just want something quick and dirty, you could use:

re.match(r'.*>([^<>]*)</font>.*', s).group(1)

This just grabs all of the non angle-brackety things before a closing font tag. Again, not suitable for "real" parsing.

answered Nov 2, 2010 at 21:27

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