[Tutor] Issues with regex escaping on \{

[gpo]

My regex is being run in both Python v2.6 and v3.1
For this example, I'll give one line.  This lines will be read out of log
files.  I'm trying to get the GUID for the User ID to query a database with
it, so I'd like a sub match.  Here is the code
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import re
line = '>Checking Privilege for UserId:
{88F96ED2-D471-DE11-95B6-0050569E7C88}, PrivilegeId:
{71AD2527-8494-4654-968D-FE61E9A6A9DF}. Returned hr = 0'
pUserID=re.compile('UserID: \{(.+)\}',re.I)  #Sub match is one or more
characters between the first set of squigglies immediately following
'UserID: '

#the output is:
(re.search(pUserID,line)).group(1)
'88F96ED2-D471-DE11-95B6-0050569E7C88}, PrivilegeId:
{71AD2527-8494-4654-968D-FE61E9A6A9DF'
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Why isn't the match terminating after it finds the first \}  ?
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