how to remove <BR> using replace function?

[localpricemaps]

i have some html that looks like this
<address style="color:#">34 main,<br> Boston, MA</address>

and i am trying to use the replace function to get rid of the <Br> that
i scrape out using this code:

for oText in incident.fetchText( oRE):
strTitle += oText.strip()
strTitle = string.replace(strTitle,'<br>','')

but it doesn't seem to remove the <br>

any ideas?

[Dylan Moreland]

I think you want to use the replace method of the string instance.
Something like this will work:

# See http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html#l2h-196
txt = "an unfortunate <br> in the middle"
txt = txt.replace("<br>", "")

[localpricemaps]

tried that, didn't work for me

[localpricemaps]

nope didn't work

[Dylan Moreland]

lo************@gmail.com wrote:

nope didn't work

Could you be more specific about the error? Both my example and yours
work perfectly on my box.

[Rinzwind]

Works for me.

txt = "an unfortunate <br> in the middle"
print txt.replace("<br>", "") an unfortunate in the middle

Though I don't like the 2 spaces it gives ;)

[Duncan Booth]

Rinzwind wrote:

Works for me.

txt = "an unfortunate <br> in the middle"
print txt.replace("<br>", "") an unfortunate in the middle

Though I don't like the 2 spaces it gives ;)

Although I generally advise against overuse of regular expressions, this is
one situation where regular expressions might be useful: the situation is
simple enough not to warrant a parser, but apart from the whitespace a <br>
tag could have attributes or be written in xhtml style <br />. Also judging
by the inconsistency between the OP's subject line and his original
question he doesn't seem sure whether the tag is <br> or <BR> or even <Br>.

import re
nobr = re.compile('\W*<br.*?>\W*', re.I)
nobr.sub(' ', "an unfortunate <br /> in the middle") 'an unfortunate in the middle' nobr.sub(' ', "an unfortunate <BR> in the middle")

'an unfortunate in the middle'

[Albert Leibbrandt]

Rinzwind wrote:

Works for me.

txt = "an unfortunate <br> in the middle"
print txt.replace("<br>", "")

an unfortunate in the middle


Though I don't like the 2 spaces it gives ;)

so use regex and replace both the double spaces and the <br>

cheers
albert

[bruno at modulix]

lo************@gmail.com wrote:

i have some html that looks like this
<address style="color:#">34 main,<br> Boston, MA</address>

and i am trying to use the replace function to get rid of the <Br> that
i scrape out using this code:

for oText in incident.fetchText( oRE):
strTitle += oText.strip()
Why concatening ?
strTitle = string.replace(strTitle,'<br>','')
Use strTitle.replace('<br>', '') instead. And BTW, hungarian notation is
evil, so:
for text in incident.fetchText(...):
title = text.strip().replace('<br>', '')
but it doesn't seem to remove the <br>
it does :

Python 2.4.2 (#1, Feb 9 2006, 02:40:32)
[GCC 3.4.5 (Gentoo 3.4.5, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

s = '<address style="color:#">34 main,<br> Boston, MA</address>'
s.replace('<br>', '') '<address style="color:#">34 main, Boston, MA</address>'

The problem is obviously not with str.replace(), as you could have
figured out by yourself very easily.
any ideas?

yes: post the minimal *running* code that exhibit the problem.

Your problem is probably elsewhere, and given some of previous posts
here ('problems writing tuple to log file' and 'indentation messing up
my tuple?'), I'd say that a programming101 course should be your first
move.
--
bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'o****@xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Duncan Booth <du**********@suttoncourtenay.org.uk> wrote:

Although I generally advise against overuse of regular expressions, this is
one situation where regular expressions might be useful: [ ... ]

nobr = re.compile('\W*<br.*?>\W*', re.I)

Agreed (on both counts), but r'\s*<br.*?>\s*' might be better
(consider what happens with "an unfortunate... <br> in the middle"
if you use \W rather than \s).

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[Duncan Booth]

Sion Arrowsmith wrote:

Duncan Booth <du**********@suttoncourtenay.org.uk> wrote:

Although I generally advise against overuse of regular expressions,
this is one situation where regular expressions might be useful: [ ...
]

> nobr = re.compile('\W*<br.*?>\W*', re.I)

Agreed (on both counts), but r'\s*<br.*?>\s*' might be better
(consider what happens with "an unfortunate... <br> in the middle"
if you use \W rather than \s).

Yes, I don't really know why I wrote \W when I obviously meant \s. Thanks
for correcting that.

Even better might be r'(\s*<br.*?>)+\s*' to get multiple runs of <br> tags.