Extracting the Ingredients from a Recipe with Regular Expressions : XML Parse « XML « Python

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Extracting the Ingredients from a Recipe with Regular Expressions

 

import sys
import re

pat = r'<ingredients>((.|\n)*?)</ingredients>'
filename = sys.argv[1]

data = open(filename).read()

m = re.search(pat,data)
if not m:
    print "No ingredients found"
    print sys.exit(1)

ingredients = m.group(1)

pat = r'<item\s.*?>(.*?)</item>'
all = re.findall(pat,ingredients)

for item in all:
    print item

   
  

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