Python Regex : find zip from html content

Question

i have a email template which is having email context in html formate,

now i wanted to find the zip number from the email html content,

for that i have used regex to search the zip code, the content is like Formate 1:

helllo this is the mail  which will converted in the lead &#13;
and here is some addresss  which will not be used..
&#13;
and the 
zip: 364001
city: New york

formate 2:

<p><b>Name</b></p><br/>
fname
<p><b>Last Name</b></p><br/>
lname
<p><b>PLZ</b></p><br/>
71392
<p><b>mail</b></p><br/>
heliconia72@mail.com

the code looks like,

regex = r'(?P<zip>Zip:\s*\d\d\d\d\d\d)'
zip_match = re.search(regex, mail_content) # find zip
zip_match.groups()[0]

this is searching for fomate 2 only, how can i write a regex so it work for both the formate.

A general advice would be to not try to parse HTML with regex, rather use a library like BeautifulSoup, extract text nodes only (discarding script, css) and use regex on them instead. — Antti Haapala -- Слава Україні, Aug 23 '13 at 06:21
@AnttiHaapala but, you can see the format 1 has no html code block, while format 2 does. — OpenCurious, Aug 23 '13 at 06:50
Why do you use a named group for the search but not with the group method? Also, if you look for 6 digits do `\d{6}`. — LarsVegas, Aug 23 '13 at 07:00
See first answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags — Hyperboreus, Aug 23 '13 at 08:38

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 23 '13 at 08:08

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If you really need to use regex for this (I would probably use BeautifulSoup for the second), you could use this for example:

regex = r'(?:zip:\s*|PLZ</b></p><br/>\n)(\d{5})'
zip_match = re.search(regex1, mail_content)
zip_match.groups()[0]

answered Aug 23 '13 at 08:08

Dave Halter

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i recommend strip tags – eri Aug 23 '13 at 09:00

Python Regex : find zip from html content

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