Extract part of a regex match

Question

I want a regular expression to extract the title from a HTML page. Currently I have this:

title = re.search(\'\', html, re.IGNOR         


        

Answer 1

The provided pieces of code do not cope with Exceptions May I suggest

getattr(re.search(r"", s, re.IGNORECASE), 'groups', lambda:[u""])()[0]

This returns an empty string by default if the pattern has not been found, or the first match.