Formatting Regex to Match Table of Contents [duplicate]
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I need to pull the Table of Contents from a readme file in a Github repository. I used the 'requests' module in python to pull the text from the readme, and now I'm trying to match the Table of Contents using regular expressions. Here's the code I have leading up to my question:
import requests
import os
import sys
import re
# Get readme page info via Github API.
rm_pg_url = ('https://api.github.com/repos/PillarOfSand/Projects/readme')
rm_pg = requests.get(rm_pg_url, timeout = 10)
rm_pg_content = rm_pg.json()
# Isolate download page. Get actual text from readme file.
download_url = rm_pg_content['download_url']
real_rm = requests.get(download_url, timeout = 10)
all_text = real_rm.text
toc_regex = re.compile(r'(?s)^## Table of Contents.*security)$')
table_of_contents = toc_regex.search(all_text)
The last two lines are what I'm trying to get at specifically. The table_of_contents variable is type None, so the regular expression I'm using isn't matching anything. The text string I'm searching can be found at the following URL:
ReadME Text
So, my actual question is, where am I going wrong? How does my regular expression need to be adjusted to match the entire table of contents?
Thanks.
regex python-3.x
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I need to pull the Table of Contents from a readme file in a Github repository. I used the 'requests' module in python to pull the text from the readme, and now I'm trying to match the Table of Contents using regular expressions. Here's the code I have leading up to my question:
import requests
import os
import sys
import re
# Get readme page info via Github API.
rm_pg_url = ('https://api.github.com/repos/PillarOfSand/Projects/readme')
rm_pg = requests.get(rm_pg_url, timeout = 10)
rm_pg_content = rm_pg.json()
# Isolate download page. Get actual text from readme file.
download_url = rm_pg_content['download_url']
real_rm = requests.get(download_url, timeout = 10)
all_text = real_rm.text
toc_regex = re.compile(r'(?s)^## Table of Contents.*security)$')
table_of_contents = toc_regex.search(all_text)
The last two lines are what I'm trying to get at specifically. The table_of_contents variable is type None, so the regular expression I'm using isn't matching anything. The text string I'm searching can be found at the following URL:
ReadME Text
So, my actual question is, where am I going wrong? How does my regular expression need to be adjusted to match the entire table of contents?
Thanks.
regex python-3.x
asked Nov 12 at 22:44
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You probably wantr'(?sm)^## Table of Contents.*?security)$'
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I need to pull the Table of Contents from a readme file in a Github repository. I used the 'requests' module in python to pull the text from the readme, and now I'm trying to match the Table of Contents using regular expressions. Here's the code I have leading up to my question:
import requests
import os
import sys
import re
# Get readme page info via Github API.
rm_pg_url = ('https://api.github.com/repos/PillarOfSand/Projects/readme')
rm_pg = requests.get(rm_pg_url, timeout = 10)
rm_pg_content = rm_pg.json()
# Isolate download page. Get actual text from readme file.
download_url = rm_pg_content['download_url']
real_rm = requests.get(download_url, timeout = 10)
all_text = real_rm.text
toc_regex = re.compile(r'(?s)^## Table of Contents.*security)$')
table_of_contents = toc_regex.search(all_text)
The last two lines are what I'm trying to get at specifically. The table_of_contents variable is type None, so the regular expression I'm using isn't matching anything. The text string I'm searching can be found at the following URL:
ReadME Text
So, my actual question is, where am I going wrong? How does my regular expression need to be adjusted to match the entire table of contents?
Thanks.
regex python-3.x
asked Nov 12 at 22:44
Sean
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This question already has an answer here:
Using ^ to match beginning of line in Python regex
3 answers
My regex is matching too much. How do I make it stop?
5 answers
I need to pull the Table of Contents from a readme file in a Github repository. I used the 'requests' module in python to pull the text from the readme, and now I'm trying to match the Table of Contents using regular expressions. Here's the code I have leading up to my question:
import requests
import os
import sys
import re
# Get readme page info via Github API.
rm_pg_url = ('https://api.github.com/repos/PillarOfSand/Projects/readme')
rm_pg = requests.get(rm_pg_url, timeout = 10)
rm_pg_content = rm_pg.json()
# Isolate download page. Get actual text from readme file.
download_url = rm_pg_content['download_url']
real_rm = requests.get(download_url, timeout = 10)
all_text = real_rm.text
toc_regex = re.compile(r'(?s)^## Table of Contents.*security)$')
table_of_contents = toc_regex.search(all_text)
The last two lines are what I'm trying to get at specifically. The table_of_contents variable is type None, so the regular expression I'm using isn't matching anything. The text string I'm searching can be found at the following URL:
ReadME Text
So, my actual question is, where am I going wrong? How does my regular expression need to be adjusted to match the entire table of contents?
Thanks.
This question already has an answer here:
Using ^ to match beginning of line in Python regex
3 answers
My regex is matching too much. How do I make it stop?
5 answers
regex python-3.x
regex python-3.x
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You probably wantr'(?sm)^## Table of Contents.*?security)$'
– Wiktor Stribiżew
Nov 12 at 22:46
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You probably wantr'(?sm)^## Table of Contents.*?security)$'
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Nov 12 at 22:46
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r'(?sm)^## Table of Contents.*?security)$'– Wiktor Stribiżew
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r'(?sm)^## Table of Contents.*?security)$'– Wiktor Stribiżew
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