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copied!<p>Four years later and understanding ICS format a bit better, if those were the <em>only</em> fields I needed, I'd just use the native string methods:</p> <pre><code>import io # Probably not a valid .ics file, but we don't really care for the example # it works fine regardless file = io.StringIO(''' BEGIN:VCALENDAR X-LOTUS-CHARSET:UTF-8 VERSION:2.0 DESCRIPTION:Emails\nDarlene\n Murphy\nDr. Ferri\n SUMMARY:smart energy management LOCATION:8778/92050462 DTSTART;TZID="India":20100629T110000 DTEND;TZID="India":20100629T120000 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTAMP:20100713T071037Z CLASS:PUBLIC SUMMARY:meeting UID:6011DDDD659E49D765257751001D2B4B-Lotus_Notes_Generated X-LOTUS-UPDATE-SEQ:1 X-LOTUS-UPDATE-WISL:$S:1;$L:1;$B:1;$R:1;$E:1;$W:1;$O:1;$M:1 X-LOTUS-NOTESVERSION:2 X-LOTUS-APPTTYPE:0 X-LOTUS-CHILD_UID:6011DDDD659E49D765257751001D2B4B END:VEVENT '''.strip()) parsing = False for line in file: field, _, data = line.partition(':') if field in ('SUMMARY', 'DESCRIPTION', 'DTSTAMP'): parsing = True print(field) print('\t'+'\n\t'.join(data.split('\n'))) elif parsing and not data: print('\t'+'\n\t'.join(field.split('\n'))) else: parsing = False </code></pre> <p>Storing the data and parsing the datetime is left as an exercise for the reader <a href="https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt" rel="nofollow noreferrer"> (it's always UTC)</a></p> <p><strong>old answer below</strong></p> <hr> <p>You could use a regex:</p> <pre><code>import re text = #your text print(re.search("SUMMARY:.*?:", text, re.DOTALL).group()) print(re.search("DESCRIPTION:.*?:", text, re.DOTALL).group()) print(re.search("DTSTAMP:.*:?", text, re.DOTALL).group()) </code></pre> <p>I'm sure it may be possible to skip the first and last words, I'm just not sure how to do it with regex. You could do it this way though:</p> <pre><code>print(' '.join(re.search("SUMMARY:.*?:", text, re.DOTALL).group().replace(':', ' ').split()[1:-1]) </code></pre>

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