python html仅带超链接的文本

Question

So I have trying to remove the HTML from

<a href="/define.php?term=dubstep&defid=5175360">dubstep</a> the music that is created from transformers having s$#

So it reads like so after parsed

dubstep - the music that is created from transformers having S$#

I want to extract the text dubstep from this html hyperlink

how would I go about doing this?

I read the solution over here How to remove tags from a string in python using regular expressions? (NOT in HTML)

but i get

<class 'NameError'>, NameError("name 're' is not defined",), <traceback object at 0x036A41E8>)

Answer 1

well

 NameError("name 're' is not defined",),

means you forgot to import re at the beginning, but this is a guess.

also, since you only need the word between the <a></a> tags, you need a regexp similar to this:

 .*<a .*>([^<]*)</a>.*

Answer 2

Why not use BeautifulSoup ?

In [44]: from bs4 import  BeautifulSoup

In [45]: soup = BeautifulSoup ('''<a href="/define.php?term=dubstep&defid=5175360">dubstep</a> the music that is created from transformers having s$#''')

In [46]: soup.find('a').text
Out[46]: u'dubstep'

EDIT:

Or if you just want text:

In [48]: soup.text 
Out[48]: u'dubstep the music that is created from transformers having s$#'

Answer 3

Use this:

from bs4 import Beautifulsoup
html = <a href="/define.php?term=dubstep&defid=5175360">dubstep</a> the music that is created from transformers having s$#
soup = Beautifulsoup(html)
print(soup.get_text())