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DannyG
DannyG

Reputation: 177

Reading Data from a website and using python regex

I'm trying to take information from a site, read it in line by line and only take the lines that start with two digits, a semicolon, two digits a semicolon and two more digits (i.e. 00:00:00). Matches are exported to another file.

I am getting a syntax error for the semicolons in my regex. 

#!/usr/bin/python

import urllib2
import re

#imported urllib to collect the data. imported re for regular expressions to     test format.


#creating our output file
f=open("output.txt", "r+")

#opening a file like object using urllib
webpage= urllib2.open("https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=blob_plain;f=manuf")


#string used to store the output
str=""

#string used to store current line
temp=""


#add while loop to read in that data. line by line. 
temp=webpage.readline()
if temp.re.search([0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]):

  str.concat(temp)
  temp=""

Upvotes: 0

Views: 69

Answers (1)

weirdev
weirdev

Reputation: 1398

You are searching using raw code, try inputting a string

if temp.re.search("[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]"):

Upvotes: 2

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