How to get a part of a string using a start character and a end character in python

Question

I actually have a string with html. And I would like to parse it using xmlparser. The pb is that some tags of my string are not correct. Especially the <img /> tags. So I need to replace those tags because it miss the final / . I would like to retrieve all img tags and add a / at the end. For that, I need to find all the <img in my text until the next > to replace it by /> in order to parse my string.

Anyone can help me?

Thanks

Answer 1

You are asking for all kinds of trouble. Try a library that is better suited to the task. It looks like BeautifulSoup may be what you want.

If you are dead set on using xmlparser , then you might want to use BeautifulSoup to clean up the HTML first. See: How do I fix wrongly nested / unclosed HTML tags?