Python regex

[l0ngb1t]

hey am experimenting with python for the first time and am trying something
i need to extract the url from a line like this one:

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  <img class="photo2" src="http://www.blabla.com/bla/whatever" alt=""/>

it's done by regex i suppose, but how, any tut's on regex ? other the the doc's on python site

[maboroshi]

I suggest looking into urlib2 and BeautifulSoup modules

urlib to download the web page and BeautifulSoup to parse the HTML

Maboroshi

[l0ngb1t]

i used the urllib2 to get the source code
am looping through the lines to get the one that have the IMG tag and extract the image URL
it's the first time that i use python so...
how do i do it ?
i have read abt the beautiful soup but didn;t find something that extract the url

[maboroshi]

A quick Google search reveals this, you will have to modify it to your situation

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/499345/regular-expression-to-extract-url-from-an-html-link

[l0ngb1t]

ok it worked well i guess
with both regex and beautiful soup
sorry for being so lazy to search more but am not having a good day and i need it done ASAP so...
again thankyou