Find break lines in html using python

Question

I'm trying to find all line breaks (br) but also change of line when within paragraphs (p) of an html website. I have this code

breaks = re.findall('br<>\n', html)
print len(breaks)

but it's not working. Any help

Answer 1

I'm not entirely sure what you want, since you don't show example inputs and outputs.

But if you are looking to split after an <br> tag OR an newline, you could try this:

# included many vairations of the '<br>' tag
breaks = re.findall('<br>|<br/>|<br />|\n', html)
print len(breaks)

Does that help?