Ok, I'm getting close now. I've found the line and now I need to extract the score. scoreline='<td><font class="be">-4</font></td>' #the line I wanted s='<td><font class="be">(.*)</font></td>' e.sub(s,'\1',scoreline) This should give me '-4' but it gives me \x01. What is that? I know I'm close!! -- Michael Montagne [montagne@boora.com] 503.226.1575 --