On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:37 AM, prasad rao <prasadaraon50 at gmail.com> wrote: > > licenseRe = re.compile(r'\(([A-Z]+)\)( No. (\d+))?') Change that to: licenseRe = re.compile(r'\(([A-Z]+)\)\s*(No.\d+)?') It now works. Thanks, Senthil