Capturing regular expression in Python

Question

I would like to use the regular expressions in Python to get everything that is after a </html> tag, an put it in a string. So I tried to understand how to do it in Python but I was not able to make it work. Can anyone explain me how to do this ridiculous simple task ?

Answer 1

m = re.match(".*<\html>(.*)",my_html_text_string)
print m.groups()

or even better

print my_html_string.split("</html>")[-1]

Answer 2

You can do this without a regular expression:

text[text.find('</html>')+7:]

Answer 3

import re

text = 'foo</html>bar'
m = re.search('</html>(.*)', text)
print m.group(1)