Regular Expression - newbie question

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I tried with the following code. It didn't work. Am I missing something?
Thanks.

import re
data = open("c.txt","rb").read()
print re.findall("^.*python output[\000-\377]*^.*?Hello World[\000-\377].*$",data)

 

"Raymond Hettinger" <python at rcn.com> wrote in message news:<ajvd5u$ln0$1 at bob.news.rcn.net>...
> Try something like this:
> 
> re.findall("^.*python output[\000-\377]*^.*?Hello World[\000-\377].*$",
> data)
> 
> Note the question mark added after the star to make the middle part
> non-greedy.
> 
> 
> Raymond Hettinger
>