python how to fetch these string

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text=u’<a href="#5" accesskey="5"></a><a href="#1" accesskey="1"><font color="#667755">\ue689</font></a><a href="#2" accesskey="2"><font color="#667755">\ue6ec</font></a><a href="#3" accesskey="3"><font color="#667755">\ue6f6</font></a>‘

I am a python new hand. I wanna get \ue6ec、\ue6f6、\ue6ec,how to fetch these string use re module. Thank you very much!

wow, this fragment looks intentionally obfuscated. What does this actually come from? — SingleNegationElimination
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ceth · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-26 07:09:39Z

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Regexp is not good tool to work with HTML. Use the Beautiful Soup.

answered Nov 26, 2010 at 7:09

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Kimvais · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-26 07:32:43Z

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>>> from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
>>> text=u'<a href="#5" accesskey="5"></a><a href="#1" accesskey="1"><font color="#667755">\ue689</font></a><a href="#2" accesskey="2"><font color="#667755">\ue6ec</font></a><a href="#3" accesskey="3"><font color="#667755">\ue6f6</font></a>'
>>> t = BeautifulSoup(text)
>>> t.findAll(text=True)
[u'\ue689', u'\ue6ec', u'\ue6f6']

edited Nov 26, 2010 at 7:32

answered Nov 26, 2010 at 7:11

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Chris Morgan Over a year ago

And for reference, that produces u'\ue689\ue6ec\ue6f6'.

user521023 Over a year ago

The lastest BeautifulSoup-3.0.0.py, there is not have getText() method,how to use it.Thank you .

Kimvais Over a year ago

Oops, did not notice - fixed now (and this is actually better since now you don't have to split it - if you want them in a single string, do ''.join(t.findAll(text=True)

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:29:03Z

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Don't use regular expressions to parse HTML. Use BeautifulSoup. Documentation for BeautifulSoup.

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Utku Zihnioglu · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-26 14:52:05Z

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If you know that the page will always have that format, use BeautifulSoup parser to find what you need in HTML.

However, sometimes BeautifulSoup may break due to malformed HTML. I'd suggest you to use lxml which is python binding of libxml2. It will parse and usually correct the malformed HTML.

answered Nov 26, 2010 at 14:52

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