The string below is a piece of a longer string of about 20000
characters returned from a web page. I need to isolate the number at
the end of the line containing 'LastUpdated'. I can find
'LastUpdated' with .find but not sure about how to isolate the
number. 'LastUpdated' is guaranteed to occur only once. Would
appreciate it if one of you string parsing whizzes would take a stab
at it.
Thanks,
jh
<input type="hidden" name="RFP" value="-1"/>
<!--<input type="hidden" name="EnteredBy " value="johnxxxx "/>-->
<input type="hidden" name="EnteredBy " value="john"/>
<input type="hidden" name="ServiceIn dex" value="1"/>
<input type="hidden" name="LastUpdat ed" value="11786588 63"/>
<input type="hidden" name="NextPage" value="../active/active.php"/>
<input type="hidden" name="ExistingS tatus" value="10" ?>
<table width="98%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"
align="center" 12  3102 
En Tue, 08 May 2007 22:09:52 -0300, HMS Surprise <jo**@datavoice int.com>
escribió:
The string below is a piece of a longer string of about 20000
characters returned from a web page. I need to isolate the number at
the end of the line containing 'LastUpdated'. I can find
'LastUpdated' with .find but not sure about how to isolate the
number. 'LastUpdated' is guaranteed to occur only once. Would
appreciate it if one of you string parsing whizzes would take a stab
at it.
<input type="hidden" name="RFP" value="-1"/>
<!--<input type="hidden" name="EnteredBy " value="johnxxxx "/>-->
<input type="hidden" name="EnteredBy " value="john"/>
<input type="hidden" name="ServiceIn dex" value="1"/>
<input type="hidden" name="LastUpdat ed" value="11786588 63"/>
<input type="hidden" name="NextPage" value="../active/active.php"/>
<input type="hidden" name="ExistingS tatus" value="10" ?>
<table width="98%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"
align="center"
You really should use an html parser here. But assuming that the page will
not change a lot its structure you could use a regular expression like
this:
expr = re.compile(r'na me\s*=\s*"LastU pdated"\s+value \s*=\s*"(.*?)"' ,
re.IGNORECASE)
number = expr.search(tex t).group(1)
(Handling of "not found" and "duplicate" cases is left as an exercise for
the reader)
Note that <input value="11786588 63" type="hidden" name="LastUpdat ed" /is
as valid as your html, but won't match the expression.
--
Gabriel Genellina
On 8 May 2007 18:09:52 -0700, HMS Surprise <jo**@datavoice int.comwrote:
>
The string below is a piece of a longer string of about 20000
characters returned from a web page. I need to isolate the number at
the end of the line containing 'LastUpdated'. I can find
'LastUpdated' with .find but not sure about how to isolate the
number. 'LastUpdated' is guaranteed to occur only once. Would
appreciate it if one of you string parsing whizzes would take a stab
at it.
Does this help?
In [7]: s = '<input type="hidden" name="LastUpdat ed"
value="11786588 63"/>'
In [8]: int(s.split("=" )[-1].split('"')[1])
Out[8]: 1178658863
There's probably a hundred different ways of doing this, but this is
the first that came to mind.
Cheers,
Tim
Thanks,
jh
<input type="hidden" name="RFP" value="-1"/>
<!--<input type="hidden" name="EnteredBy " value="johnxxxx "/>-->
<input type="hidden" name="EnteredBy " value="john"/>
<input type="hidden" name="ServiceIn dex" value="1"/>
<input type="hidden" name="LastUpdat ed" value="11786588 63"/>
<input type="hidden" name="NextPage" value="../active/active.php"/>
<input type="hidden" name="ExistingS tatus" value="10" ?>
<table width="98%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"
align="center"
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Thanks for posting. Could you reccommend an HTML parser that can be
used with python or jython?
john
Yes it could, after I isolate that one string. Making sure I that I
isolate that complete line and only that line is part of the problem.
thanks for posting.
jh
On May 8, 9:19 pm, HMS Surprise <j...@datavoice int.comwrote:
Yes it could, after I isolate that one string. Making sure I that I
isolate that complete line and only that line is part of the problem.
It comes in as one large string...
En Tue, 08 May 2007 23:06:14 -0300, HMS Surprise <jo**@datavoice int.com>
escribió:
Thanks for posting. Could you reccommend an HTML parser that can be
used with python or jython?
Try BeautifoulSoup, which handles malformed pages pretty well.
--
Gabriel Genellina
On 8 May 2007 19:06:14 -0700, HMS Surprise wrote
Thanks for posting. Could you reccommend an HTML parser that can be
used with python or jython?
BeautifulSoup ( http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/) makes HTML
parsing easy as pie, and sufficiently old versions seem to work with Jython. I
just tested this with Jython 2.2a1 and BeautifulSoup 1.x:
Jython 2.2a1 on java1.5.0_07 (JIT: null)
Type "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(" ""<input type="hidden" name="LastUpdat ed"
value="11786588 63"/>""")
>>print soup.first('inp ut', {'name':'LastUp dated'}).get('v alue')
1178658863
Hope this helps,
--
Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net
Thanks all.
Carsten, you are here early and late. Do you ever sleep? ;^)
This looks to be simple HTML (and I'm presuming that's a type on
that ?ending). A quick glance at the Python library reference (you do
have a copy, don't you) reveals at least two HTML parsing modules...
No that is not a typo and bears investigation. Thanks for the find.
I found HTMLParser but had trouble setting it up.
About five minutes work gave me this:
My effort has been orders of magnitude greater in time.....
Thanks all for all the excellent suggestions.
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