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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I have the following code:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>import urllib.request,re,string<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>months = ['Jan.', 'Feb.', 'Mar.', 'Apr.', 'May.', 'Jun.', 'Jul.', 'Aug.', 'Sep.', 'Oct.', 'Nov.', 'Dec.']<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>from urllib.request import urlopen<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>for line in urlopen('http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl'):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> line = line.decode('utf-8') # Decoding the binary data to text.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> if 'EST' in line or 'EDT' in line: # look for Eastern Time<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> blah = re.search(r'<\w\w>(\w{3}\.)\s+(\d{2}),\s+(\d{2}).+([AP]M)\s+(E[SD]T)', line)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> (month, day, time, ap, offset) = blah.group(1,2,3,4,5)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> print(blah,'\n',ap,month, offset,day, time ) #which gives:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(0, 28), match='<BR>Nov. 09, 07:15:46 PM EST'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> PM Nov. EST 09 07<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This works fine, but in the (month….. line, I have blah.group(1,2,3,4,5), but this is problematic for me. I shouldn’t have to use that 1,2,3,4,5 sequence. I tried to use many alternatives using: range(5) which doesn’t work, list(range(5)) which actually lists the numbers in a list, and several others. As I read it, the search puts out a tuple. I was hoping to just assign the re.search to month, day, time, ap, offset directly. Why wouldn’t that work? Why won’t a range(5) work? I couldn’t find a way to get the len of blah.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What am I missing?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Clayton<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You can tell the caliber of a man by his gun<i>--c. kirkwood<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>