How would I extract this with Python regular expressions?

Question

I'm trying to pull the date time out from:

<time datetime="2015-07-25T10:06:46-0700">2015-07-25 10:06am</time>

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

Check [this](http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/4237058) – Chaker Jul 25 '15 at 17:39 — Chaker, Jul 25 '15 at 17:39
Check [this](http://stackoverflow.com/a/1733489/4698093) – kogster Jul 26 '15 at 21:20 — kogster, Jul 26 '15 at 21:20

Avinash Raj · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-27T05:01:51.967

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Use BeautifulSoup parser.

>>> html = '''<time datetime="2015-07-25T10:06:46-0700">2015-07-25 10:06am</time>'''
>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
>>> soup.findAll('time')[0].text
'2015-07-25 10:06am'

With re,

re.search(r'<time\b[^>]*>([^<>]*)</time>', s).group(1)

edited Jul 27 '15 at 05:01

answered Jul 25 '15 at 17:41

Avinash Raj

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I know how to do it with BeautifulSoup, I'm trying to do it with re. – kogster Jul 26 '15 at 21:05

How would I extract this with Python regular expressions?

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