> Your regular expression pattern should work unchanged, and you probably want > to use http://docs.python.org/library/re.html#re.findall or similar to do > the actual matching. If all you want to do is iterate over the matches, I > would use re.finditer :-) Thank you, I found the solution: for m in re.finditer(r'href="?(.*?)"?>', text): print m.group(1) Laszlo