Mega Code Archive

 

Categories / Python / XML

 

Extracting the Ingredients from a Recipe with Regular Expressions

import sys import re pat = r'<ingredients>((.|\n)*?)</ingredients>' filename = sys.argv[1] data = open(filename).read() m = re.search(pat,data) if not m:     print "No ingredients found"     print sys.exit(1) ingredients = m.group(1) pat = r'<item\s.*?>(.*?)</item>' all = re.findall(pat,ingredients) for item in all:     print item