how do I split parsed html output using python?

Question

I have this html

<tr class="BgWhite"> 
 <td headers="th6" valign="top">
    0070648261<br/>QTY: 3
 </td>
</tr>

I want to obtain "0070648261" and "3" separately as in ID = 0070648261 and quantity = 3. I was able to use the code below

container1.find("td", {"headers": "th6"}).text.strip()

to produce this output

   0070648261<br/>QTY: 3

but how do I split and the output to get

ID = 0070648261 quantity = 3 ?

Just split the string... Using split function

OneCricketeer
– OneCricketeer

2017-09-07 23:33:26 +00:00
Commented Sep 7, 2017 at 23:33 — OneCricketeer
– OneCricketeer, Commented Sep 7, 2017 at 23:33
What HTML parsing library are you using?

Chris Martin
– Chris Martin

2017-09-07 23:34:49 +00:00
Commented Sep 7, 2017 at 23:34 — Chris Martin
– Chris Martin, Commented Sep 7, 2017 at 23:34

whackamadoodle3000 · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-07 23:34:59Z

1

Try this.

a="0070648261<br/>QTY: 3"
a=a.split("<br/>")
a="ID = "+a[0]+" quantity ="+a[1].split(':')[1]

Output:

'ID = 0070648261 quantity = 3'

answered Sep 7, 2017 at 23:34

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Val · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-07 23:59:00Z

1

Why not to do that with regex?

import re
s = '<tr class="BgWhite"> <td headers="th6" valign="top">0070648261<br/>QTY: 3</td></tr>'

res = re.findall(r'(\d+)<br/>QTY: (\d+)', s)[0]
print('ID = {} quantity = {}'.format(res[0], res[1]))

edited Sep 7, 2017 at 23:59

answered Sep 7, 2017 at 23:55

Val

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2 Comments

Val Over a year ago

it's sometimes appropriate to parse a limited, known set of HTML. - from the post you sent above

OneCricketeer Over a year ago

Right, but the question already parsed down to the inner tag, so while this solution works, you could also just use the string that was output

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