"<" special character in re?

[Opinderjit]

Try using re.search instead of re.match.

re.match matches only from the beginning of a string, and re.search
scans through the string finding the first match.

For example, the re.match will match the string '<hh>ab<cd>ef', with
group('i') equal to '<hh>'.

The Python Library Reference (part of the HTML docs that come with the
install) contains a section on Matching vs. Searching (Section 4.2.2).

Hope this helps.

In article <8FB39D54Astefanwitzelzvwunigo at 134.76.98.67>,
  stefan.witzel at zvw.uni-goettingen.de (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?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Stefan Witzel
>
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