I have a simple test.html with html content and I need a way to insert this text:
"bla bla bla..."
in this tag:
<p id="thislist"> </p>
Is there a way to do that ?
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4What have you tried so far ? There is tons of ways for doing what you want. – Cyrbil Dec 11 '15 at 10:16
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Nothing because I don't know if there is a way to do that. What is the simplest way ? – xRobot Dec 11 '15 at 10:17
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what about regex I think it suits here – The6thSense Dec 11 '15 at 10:18
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@VigneshKalai: [Nope](http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/5299236) – Remi Guan Dec 11 '15 at 10:27
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@KevinGuan I never tried to read that. It confuses me in a lot of ways. – The6thSense Dec 11 '15 at 10:31
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1@VigneshKalai: Don't try to *read* that. Check the comments and that mod's note is enough :) – Remi Guan Dec 11 '15 at 10:33
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Maybe try Beautifulsoup?
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
with open('test.html') as f:
html = f.read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
tag = soup.find('p', {'id': "thislist"})
tag.insert(0, "bla bla bla...")
Remi Guan
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Match it using a regular expression and insert the content within it:
import re
some_string = 'puppies kittens <p id="thislist"> </p> ponies'
print re.sub(
r'(<p id="thislist">)\s*(</p>)', r'\1bla bla bla...\2', some_string)
The output is
puppies kittens <p id="thislist">bla bla bla...</p> ponies
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no error, just print: puppies kittens
ponies instead of puppies kittensbla bla bla...
ponies – xRobot Dec 11 '15 at 10:35 -
That's bizarre ... did you copy + paste into the interpreter? How are you running it? What version of python (find out with `python --version`)? – John Hoffman Dec 11 '15 at 10:37