Regex within html tags

Question

I would like to parse the HD price from the following snipper of HTML. I am only have fragments of the html code, so I cannot use an HTML parser for this.

Answer 1

BeautifulSoup is very lenient to the HTML it parses, you can use it for the chunks/parts of HTML too:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

data = u"""

  View In iTunes
 £19.99
 

    
HD Version
"""

soup = BeautifulSoup(data)
print soup.find('span', class_='price').text[1:]

Prints:

19.99