"<" special character in re?

[Kragen Sitaker]

In article <76Qx5.3132$Xo6.147493 at news-east.usenetserver.com>,
Kragen Sitaker <kragen at dnaco.net> wrote:
>In article <8FB39D54Astefanwitzelzvwunigo at 134.76.98.67>,
>Stefan Witzel <stefan.witzel at zvw.uni-goettingen.de> wrote:
>>When I try to extract all characters between "<" and ">" using re ...
>>   hit = re.match('<(?P<i>[a-z]*)>', 'ab<cd>ef')
>>
>>... I always get "no hit". Is "<" a special character in re? 
>
>No, but what is your expression trying to match?  It looks for all the
>world like a syntactically invalid regex.  It would seem you could use
>'<([^>]*)>' to match what you say you want to match.  What is the ?P<i>
>stuff supposed to mean?

Oh, I see --- never mind.  You're naming the group 'i'.  :)
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