in article 3c34bcc9$0$79560$6e49188b at news.goldengate.net, Greg Krohn at infinitystwin.SPAM at IS.BAD.yahoo.com wrote on 1/3/02 3:23 PM: > pat = re.compile(r"<title>(.*)</title>", re.I) Or just in case somebody puts two set of titles in one document, for whatever reason... pat = re.compile(r"<title>([^</title>]+)</title>", re.I)