how to retrieve text from anchor href attribute in python

Question

Let's say I have a link like this:

link = '<a href="some text">...</a>'

Is there any way I can retrieve the text from anchor href attribute so the result will be something like this:

hrefText = 'some text'

And thank you in advance

Answer 1

This is a way:

import re
print re.search('(?<=<a href=")[^"]+',link).group(0)

Or,

print re.search(r'<a\s+href="([^"]+)',link).group(1)