How to extract text from 2 tags of html or replace first and last tag

Question

I have text like below

• I m just trying to extract the content from p tag

• I don't want to eliminate the <p> or any other tag between them

d = "<p><p>{'Area': 'Square',</p>\n<p> <tr> <td>'Flag': 'com'}</p></p>"

My code is below

import re
re.sub('<[^<>]+>', '',d)

My output is

"{'Area': 'Square',\n\xa0\xa0'Flag': 'com'}"

Expected out is only replace first p and last p tag

"<p>{'Area': 'Square',</p>\n<p> <tr> <td>'Flag': 'com'}</p>"

Answer 1

Use

re.sub(r'^<p>(.*)</p>$', r'\1', d, flags=re.S)

See regex proof .

EXPLANATION

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  ^                        the beginning of the string
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  <p>                      '<p>'
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  (                        group and capture to \1:
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    .*                       any character except \n (0 or more times
                             (matching the most amount possible))
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  )                        end of \1
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  </p>                     '</p>'
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  $                        before an optional \n, and the end of the
                           string