I need a Python regex to give me all the strings between ~ and ^ from a string like this:

~~~~ AAA ^ BBB ^ CCC > DDD ^ 

I've tried this:

import re
target = ' ~~~~ AAA > ^ BBB ^ CCC > DDD ^  '
matchObj = re.findall(r'~(.*?)\^', target)
print matchObj 

But the result is:

['~~~ ABC ']

What I expect is:

['AAA', 'BBB', 'CCC', 'DDD']

or

['^AAA', '^BBB', '^CCC', 'DDD']

I want to do this because I am trying to extract text from an HTML page like this:

 <td class="cell-1"><div><span class="value-frame">&nbsp;~~~~ ABC ^ DEF ^ HGK > LMN ^</span></div>
</td>

As long as you're parsing out the HTML correctly with BeautifulSoup and are just left with the contents of the span, then you should just be able to use this as a RegEx:

import retarget = ' ~~~~ AAA ^ BBB ^ CCC > DDD ^  'matchObj = re.findall('(\w{3})', target)print(matchObj)

Outputs:

['AAA', 'BBB', 'CCC', 'DDD']