>>> re.search("NETWORK=(.+?) ",test) <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x2ab8d21f2fa8> >>> print re.search("NETWORK=(.+?) ",test) <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x2ab8d2327030> >>> keke = re.search("NETWORK=(.+?) ",test) >>> print keke.group(1) Rizon