How can I find string with regular expressions in Python

Question

I have html string like that for example

<td align="left" nowrap="nowrap">John 23</td>

I want to find "John 23" between '<td align="left" nowrap="nowrap">' and '</td>'

I want to find with Regular Expressions in python

How can I do it?

[Don't parse HTML with regex.](https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/8164958) — Seb, Feb 20 '20 at 15:59
I recommend you to check [Regular Expression HOWTO](https://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html). — accdias, Feb 20 '20 at 15:59
Does this answer your question? [RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags) — Andrew Allison, Feb 20 '20 at 16:02

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 20 '20 at 16:00

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Use BeautifulSoup to parse HTML. Regex is the wrong tool; it works fine for this example but wouldn't scale well to a full document.

>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> html = '<td align="left" nowrap="nowrap">John 23</td>'
>>> BeautifulSoup(html).find("td").text
'John 23'

answered Feb 20 '20 at 16:00

ggorlen

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Thanks very much. The BeautifulSoup is so perfect library. – Murad Feb 20 '20 at 16:08

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