Regular expressions trouble

[Darrell Gallion]

<vivienne_van_velzen at my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:8hgcn2$1lh$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
> I'm fairly new to the use of regular expressions,
and I've come upon a
> problem I can't seem to fix. I'm trying to extract a
keyword from a
> HTML-page and color it red. This works fine, except
that it also
> extracts the keywords within tags.

import re
def main():
    buf = open("mozilla_org.htm").read()
    keyWords=['help']
    pat='(>[^<]*)(%s)'
    for p in keyWords:
        buf = re.sub(pat%p,'\g<1><b><font
color=\"red\">\g<2></font></b>',buf)

    open("test.htm","w").write(buf)
main()


--Darrell Gallion


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