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"<" special character in re?

Kragen Sitaker kragen at dnaco.net
Tue Sep 19 16:35:15 EDT 2000 
In article <8FB39D54Astefanwitzelzvwunigo at 134.76.98.67>,
Stefan Witzel <stefan.witzel at zvw.uni-goettingen.de> wrote:
>When I try to extract all characters between "<" and ">" using re ...
>   hit = re.match('<(?P<i>[a-z]*)>', 'ab<cd>ef')
>
>... I always get "no hit". Is "<" a special character in re? 

No, but what is your expression trying to match?  It looks for all the
world like a syntactically invalid regex.  It would seem you could use
'<([^>]*)>' to match what you say you want to match.  What is the ?P<i>
stuff supposed to mean?
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