How to print out html tags excluding the attributes

[Michael F. Stemper]

On 20/07/2019 20.04, sum abiut wrote:
> I want to use regular expression to print out the HTML tags excluding the
> attributes.
> 
> for example:
> 
> import re
> html = '<h1>Hi</h1><p>test <span class="time">test</span></p>'
> tags = re.findall(r'<[^>]+>', html)
> for a in tags:
>     print(a)
> 
> 
> the output is :
> 
> <h1>
> </h1>
> <p>
> <span class="time">
> </span>
> </p>
> 
> But I just want the tag, not the attributes

Try this:

for a in tags:
    a = re.sub( " .*>", ">", a )
    print(a)

(The two statements could be combined.)

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Michael F. Stemper
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