Python string operation, extract text between html tags

Question

I have a string:

  
JUL 28         

(it outputs over two lines, so there must

Answer 1

You have a bunch of options here. You could go for an all-out xml parser like lxml, though you seem to want a domain-specific solution. I'd go with a multiline regex:

import re
rex = re.compile(r'(.*?)',re.S|re.M)
...
data = """  
JUL 28         """

match = rex.match(data)
if match:
    text = match.groups()[0].strip()

Now that you have text, you can turn it into a date pretty easily:

from datetime import datetime
date = datetime.strptime(text, "%b %d")