Regular Expressions 101

Explanation
Pro

<loc>the literal text <loc> (case sensitive)

Group 1(http:\/\/.+)

http:the literal text http: (case sensitive)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

.+any Unicode character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

loc>the literal text loc> (case sensitive)

Match Information

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Quick Reference

25 tokens

Regular Expression

<loc>(http:\/\/.+)<\/loc>

New

import urllib2 as ur
import re

f = ur.urlopen(u'http://bodyshopdirectory.co.uk/main_sitemap.xml')
res = f.readlines()
for d in res:
  data = re.findall('<loc>(http:\/\/.+)<\/loc>',d)
  for i in data:
    print i

Substitution

import urllib2 as ur
import re

f = ur.urlopen(u'http://bodyshopdirectory.co.uk/main_sitemap.xml')
res = f.readlines()
for d in res:
  data = re.findall('<loc>(http:\/\/.+)<\/loc>',d)
  for i in data:
    print i