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Re: string encoding regex problem

From Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
Subject Re: string encoding regex problem
Date 2014-08-16 11:01 +0200
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Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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Philipp Kraus wrote:

> The code works till last week correctly, I don't change the pattern. 

Websites' contents and structure change sometimes.

> My question is, can it be a problem with string encoding? 

Your regex is all-ascii. So an encoding problem is very unlikely.

> found = re.search( "<a 
> href=\"/projects/boost/files/latest/download\?source=files\" 
> title=\"/boost/(.*)",
> data)

> Did I mask the question mark and quotes
> correctly?

Yes.

A quick check...

>>> data = urllib.urlopen("http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/").read()
>>> re.compile("/projects/boost/files/latest/download\?source=files.*?>").findall(data)
['/projects/boost/files/latest/download?source=files" title="/boost-docs/1.56.0/boost_1_56_pdf.7z:  released on 2014-08-14 16:35:00 UTC">']

...reveals that the matching link has "/boost-docs/" in its title, so the
 site contents probably did change. 

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string encoding regex problem Philipp Kraus <philipp.kraus@flashpixx.de> - 2014-08-16 02:27 +0200
  Re: string encoding regex problem Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-08-15 20:48 -0400
    Re: string encoding regex problem Philipp Kraus <philipp.kraus@flashpixx.de> - 2014-08-16 04:08 +0200
      Re: string encoding regex problem Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-08-15 22:14 -0400
      Re: string encoding regex problem Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-16 14:35 +1000
      Re: string encoding regex problem Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-08-16 11:01 +0200
        Re: string encoding regex problem Philipp Kraus <philipp.kraus@flashpixx.de> - 2014-08-23 22:46 +0200
          Re: string encoding regex problem Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-08-23 23:13 +0200

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