Regex help needed!

[Rolando Espinoza La Fuente]

# http://gist.github.com/271661

import lxml.html
import re

src = """
lksjdfls <div id ='amazon_345343'> kdjff lsdfs </div> sdjfls <div id
=   "amazon_35343433">sdfsd</div><div id='amazon_8898'>welcome</div>
hello, my age is 86 years old and I was born in 1945. Do you know
that
PI is roughly 3.1443534534534534534 """

regex = re.compile('amazon_(\d+)')

doc = lxml.html.document_fromstring(src)

for div in doc.xpath('//div[starts-with(@id, "amazon_")]'):
    match = regex.match(div.get('id'))
    if match:
        print match.groups()[0]



On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
> In article <19de1d6e-5ba9-42b5-9221-ed7246e39b4a at u36g2000prn.googlegroups.com>,
> Oltmans  <rolf.oltmans at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>I've written this regex that's kind of working
>>re.findall("\w+\s*\W+amazon_(\d+)",str)
>>
>>but I was just wondering that there might be a better RegEx to do that
>>same thing. Can you kindly suggest a better/improved Regex. Thank you
>>in advance.
>
> 'Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use
> regular expressions."  Now they have two problems.'
> --Jamie Zawinski
>
> Take the advice other people gave you and use BeautifulSoup.
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