[Tutor] simple regex question

[Alan Gauld]

On 01/05/16 17:49, bruce wrote:
> Hi. I have a chunk of text code, which has multiple lines.

>   s='''
> <td valign="top" colspan="1"><b><a href="#"
> id='CourseId10795788|ACCT2081|002_005_006' style="font-weight:bold;"
> onclick='ShowSeats(this);return false;' alt="Click for Class Availability"
> title="Click for Class Availability">ACCT2081</a></b></td>'''

That looks like HTML. regex won't work reliably on HTML.
You would be better using an HTML parser like BeautifulSoup
or even the standard library's html.parser(Python v3).
That will give more precise and reliable results for only
a little more effort.

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