Extracting values from a regex match

[Tom_45]

I am trying to extract three values from the td tags in an html downloaded file.

<tr align="right"><td>236</td><td>Roy</td><td>Allyson</td>
<tr align="right"><td>237</td><td>Marvin</td><td>Pamela</td>
<tr align="right"><td>238</td><td>Micah</td><td>Kristine</td>
<tr align="right"><td>239</td><td>Collin</td><td>Raquel</td>

I am using the pattern match = re.findall(r'<td.?>([\d+])([.?])*<\/td>', file)

The file is created with a read() statement.

The output should look like

(236, "Roy", "Allyson")
(237, "Marvin", "Pamela")
(238, "Micah", "Kristine")
(239, "Collin", "Raquel")

What I get is

(236, "")
(237, "")
(238, "")
(239, "")

I've tried different variations of the same pattern and get

('236', '23', '6')
('Roy', '', 'Roy)
('Allyson', '', 'Alison')
('237', '23', '7')
('Marvin', '', 'Marvin')
('Pamela', '', 'Pamela')
('238', '23', '8')
('Micah', '', 'Micah')
('Kristine', '', 'Kristine')
('239', '23', '9')
('Collin', '', 'Collin')
('Raquel', '', 'Raquel')

I'm relatively new to regular expressions so be gently, but any help would
be appreciated.

PS: I'm using Pythoon

[Reverend Jim]

The trick is to use lazy matching which matches the shortest possible string.

html = '<tr align="right"><td>236</td><td>Roy</td><td>Allyson</td>'
pat = '<td>(.+?)</td>'

then

re.split(pat,html)

returns

['<tr align="right">', '236', '', 'Roy', '', 'Allyson', '']

and

re.split(pat,html)[1::2]

returns

['236', 'Roy', 'Allyson']

[pritaeas]

Sidenote: If you want to learn, understand and experiment with regexes I can highly recommend RegexBuddy.

[Reverend Jim]

Also autoregex

[AndreRet]

Same question, different post - Extracting values from capturing groups in rege

[Tom_45]

Question has been answered.

The correct pattern is:

matches = re.findall(r'<td>(\d+)+<\/td><td>(\w+)<\/td><td>(\w+)', file)