"<" special character in re?

[Carsten Gaebler]

Stefan Witzel wrote:
> 
> When I try to extract all characters between "<" and ">" using re ...
> 
>    import re
>    hit = re.match('<(?P<i>[a-z]*)>', 'ab<cd>ef')
>    if hit:
>            print hit.group('i')
>    else:
>            print 'no hit'
> 
> ... I always get "no hit". Is "<" a special character in re?


You'll have to use re.search() because re.match() matches only the
beginning of a string (see the docs).

cg.