Python + Regex: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'groups'

Question

I have a string which I want to extract a subset of. This is part of a larger Python script.

This is the string:

import re

htmlString = \'         


        

Answer 1

You are getting AttributeError because you're calling groups on None, which hasn't any methods.

regex.search returning None means the regex couldn't find anything matching the pattern from supplied string.

when using regex, it is nice to check whether a match has been made:

Result = re.search(SearchStr, htmlString)

if Result:
    print Result.groups()