title: Python string operation, extract text between html tags
body: <p>I have a string:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;font face="ARIAL,HELVETICA" size="-2"&gt;  
  JUL 28         &lt;/font&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>(it outputs over two lines, so there must be a \n in there.</p>
  
  <p>I wish to extract the string that's in between the <code>&lt;font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</code> tags. In this case, it's JUL 28, but it might be another date or some other number.</p>
  
  <p>1) The best way to extract the value from between the font tags? I was thinking I could extract everything in between <code>"&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;/</code>.</p>
  
  <p>edit: second question removed.</p>