How do I get regex to only print the first of an array of information found?

Question

So I'm new to web scraping and I've been stuck on this problem for awhile now.

I'm using Python w/ Regex to try and get a certain value of a class and while I do get the information I want, I get it in an array followed by a bunch of other junk I don't want. How do I get regex to only give me the first of the array?

The line of code looks like this:

'<td class="item_dropped">(.+?)</td>'

And to visualize the above statement the data that comes out looks like this:

['1,453,343,231 ABC', '24,131,411 TPP', '<a href="/item/13445/">Foo</a>', '<a href="/item/3453/">Bar</a>']

and I am trying to only grab "1,453,343,231 ABC" out of that. Can anyone please help me?

Answer 1

Well if your list variable is called result, you can do:

>>> print result[0]
1,453,343,231 ABC

The list_name[index] syntax fetches the element of the list at the number index (indexing starts at 0). Therefore, the index of 0 will fetch the 1st element.