Regular expression in Python

How to get all the positions of multiple matches
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import re
p = re.compile("ab", re.IGNORECASE)
for m in p.finditer("abcdefgAbdc"):
print m.start(), m.group()

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0 ab
7 ab

Substitution
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import re
test = "<h1>title</h1>"
test
re.sub("\<.*?\>","",test)

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>>> test = "<h1>title</h1>"
>>> test
'<h1>title</h1>'
>>> re.sub("\<.*?\>","",test)
'title'

Minimal matching
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import re
test = "<h1>title</h1>"
test
re.sub("\<.*\>","",test)
re.sub("\<.*?\>","",test)

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>>> test = "<h1>title</h1>"
>>> test
'<h1>title</h1>'
>>> re.sub("\<.*\>","",test)
''
>>> re.sub("\<.*?\>","",test)
'title'

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