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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:47:07 -0600
Subject: Re: How do you print a string after it's been searched for an RE?
To: John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:58 PM, John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> wrote:
> After I've run the re.search function on a string and no match was
> found, how can I access that string? When I try to print it directly,
> it's an empty string, I assume because it has been "consumed." How do
> I prevent this?

This has nothing to do with regular expressions. It would appear that
page.read() is letting you read the response body multiple times in
2.x but not in 3.x, probably due to a change in buffering.  Just store
the string in a variable and avoid calling page.read() multiple times.