python - REGEX To get seven numbers in a row? -


just wondering best regex 7 , 7 numbers in row is? there way use [0-9] 7 times succinctly? or should use few ????

the 7 numbers refer school district id code appear anywhere on school district's wiki page. they separated other content spaces.

input: beautifulsoup of these pages nces d id on right in table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anniston_city_schools same thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/huntsville_city_schools

ouptut: 7 digit number representing district id ex: 1234567

don't use regular expression at all. use html parser, beautifulsoup:

from urllib2 import urlopen, request bs4 import beautifulsoup  resp = urlopen(request('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anniston_city_schools',                        headers={'user-agent': 'stack overflow'})) soup = beautifulsoup(resp.read())  table = soup.find('table', class_='infobox')  row in table.find_all('tr'):     if 'nces' in row.th.text:         nces = row.td.a.text         print nces         break 

this loads url data, finds "infobox" table, row nces entry.

there 12 exactly-7-digit numbers in html source, above code extracts correct number in 1 go.


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