basically i wish to scrape content between two tags with mulitiple lines in between, ignoring other tags until it matches the one i look for.
i know (.*?) works for some content between two tags.
There's a flag for that (M or MULTILINE or (?m)).
import re
re.compile('X.*?Y', re.M)What do you mean by tag? You're not trying to parse HTML with a regex, are you? That's generally a bad idea. Parsers designed for HTML are much better.
Regex against HTML/XML is not a good combination,a funny
read.
There is a reason why parsers exist eg BeautifulSoup,lmxl...ect.
Parsers mention over can also take regex as help if needed.
Have a tutorial
here.