Python - extract string between two parameters

[jsmith613]

Hi

I have the following code in python:

start = '<description>'end = '</description>'
s = """
<description>This is the website description</description>
<description>This is the second description</description>
"""
print (s[s.find("<description>")+len("<description>"):s.find("</description>")])




How do I extract BOTH the first and second descriptions without the tags? thanks

btw I do not want to use the BeautifulSoup module.
I want to understand the code

[norobro]

For your simple example, the second description can be extracted by changing find to rfind: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.rfind


For more complicated searches use re.findall() with a capture group: https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.findall

[jsmith613]

Thanks