Searching in an html file

[pauljolly at my-deja.com]

Dear all,

I have managed to write the code to retrieve an html file from a given
address, and transfer this to a variable. I am now trying to search for
a ° within the file, using the re module. I cannot however get it
to work. My code is as follows:

import re
searchstring=re.compile('°')
result=searchstring.search(htmlcode)

where htmlcode is the code from the page retrieved.

This gives result=NONE. What is going wrong here? I know that ° can
be found within the page, I have checked in TextPad. I am completely
stuck because when I try the same search but on the following string:

"Thisisastringonwhichiwilltestthecodetofind°withinthetext"

it finds the ° without any problem. The only difference I can see
between the two strings is their length. The htmlcode string is 24KB,
the string above much less. What is going on here?

Any help is much appreciated.

Paul Jolly


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