eddie:
> Can some one help me with a
> regex that can replace everything before the <HTML> tag with nothing?
>>> pat = re.compile(r"^((?!<HTML).)*", re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL)
>>> pat.sub("", "junk\n<HTML>stuff")
'<HTML>stuff'
>>> pat.sub("", " <html>stuff")
'<html>stuff'
>>>
Andrew
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