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how can I find all span's with a class of 'blue' that contain text in the format: 04/18/13 7:29pm which could therefore be: 04/18/13 7:29pm or: Posted on 04/18/13 7:29pm in terms of constructing the logic to do this, this is what i have got so far: new_content = original_content.find_all('span', {'class' : 'blue'}) # using beautiful soup's find_all pattern = re.compile('[data in the format 04/18/13 7:29pm]') # using re for _ in new_content: result = re.findall(pattern, _) print result I've been referring to https://stackoverflow.com/a/7732827 and https://stackoverflow.com/a/12229134 to try and figure out a way to do this, but the above is all i have got so far. edit: to clarify the scenario, there are span's with: here is a lot of text that i don't need and this is the span i need because it contains 04/18/13 7:29pm and note i only need 04/18/13 7:29pm not the rest of the content. edit 2: I also tried: pattern = re.compile('.*?(\d\d/\d\d/\d\d \d\d?:\d\d\w\w)') for _ in new_content: result = re.findall(pattern, _) print result and got error: 'TypeError: expected string or buffer'

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