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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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