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On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 9:20 AM, smith jack <thinke365@gmail.com> wrote:
> if it's for a single character, this should be very easy, such as
> c{m,n} =C2=A0 the occurrence of c is between m and n,
>
> if i want to define the occurrence of (.*?)</div> =C2=A0how should make i=
t
> done? =C2=A0((.*?)</div>){1,3} =C2=A0seems not work, any method to define=
 repeat
> string using python regex?

Don't parse HTML using regexes; use an HTML parser!
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xht=
ml-self-contained-tags

Here's a survey of Python HTML parsing libraries:
http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/03/30/python-html-parser-performance/

Cheers,
Chris
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