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python re extract smallest substring between two strings [duplicate]

Sorry in advance for a potentially duplicate question, I'm somewhat new to re and can't find an answer

I have a string something like this:

<foo><bar><biz><Baz><buz>Extract Me!</span><foo><bar>

I want to extract Extract Me!, which is between a > and the only </span> that appears in the string. I tried >(.*)</span>, but that extracts ><bar><biz><Baz><buz>Extract Me!</span>.

Edit:

1:

This question got closed, linking to this as a duplicate, but making the regular expression >(.*)</span> "non greedy" by turning it into >(.*?)</span> yields the same result. I had already attempted this before posting.

2:

After some discussions, I was recommended to just use BeautifulSoup, which makes sense. I've solved the issue with re.search(r'(?:>)(\b.*)(<\/span>)', but I'll provide a bit more code so further exploration can be done.

So:

Unveiling the curtain a bit, this is the pseudo code of what I'm working with:

src = selenium_driver.page_source
soup = BeautifulSoup(src) 
list_of_things = soup.findAll(True, {'class':['list of classes']})
for thing in list_of_things:
  print(type(thing))
  print(thing)
  extract_extractMe() # <- do stuff

The result of print(type(thing)) and print(thing) would be something like this:

#type
<class 'bs4.element.Tag'>

#thing
<li class="property-item"><div class="property-text"><span data-spm-anchor-id="a2g0o.detail.1000016.i2.11ab42d1npvRCb">14CM</span></div></li>

I'm trying to extract 14CM from each "thing"



source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74892989/python-re-extract-smallest-substring-between-two-strings
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