Question

Python (Regular Expressions)
I am looking at the following html and I need to extract the names in Python. I need the following code to extract the names(male and female) from a website.

HTML

1MichaelJessica

Answer 1

how you can determine if it's male or female?

Answer 2

I would suggest you paste that string into the Input are on the site: http://re.dabase.com/
and then play around with regex until you get it right.

another good one is here: http://www.pythonregex.com/

Answer 3

**Input area

Answer 4

@ Tomas The first name is male and the second is female for all of the html.
<tr align="right"><td>2</td><td>Christopher</td><td>Ashley</td>
<tr align="right"><td>3</td><td>Matthew</td><td>Brittany</td>

<tr align="right"><td>4</td><td>Joshua</td><td>Amanda</td>
<tr align="right"><td>5</td><td>Daniel</td><td>Samantha</td>

Answer 5

ah i see..

Answer 6

type this into the regex box of the link I gave you and then click the Python button:
<td>[^<]*</td><td>([^<]+)</td><td>([^<]+)</td>

Answer 7

Put this in the Input area:
<tr align="right"><td>2</td><td>Christopher</td><td>Ashley</td>

Answer 8

sorry - I missed a .* at the start, the regex should be this:
.*<td>[^<]*</td><td>([^<]+)</td><td>([^<]+)</td>

Answer 9

the web site I listed can come in very useful when dealing with regular expressions.