Use Python Re module to extract text from multiline

Question

I'd like to retrieve the Auth= value from the multiline string below. I've tried Python re.match with no success. Will appreciate if I can get any help?

SID=DQAAALsAAABCeyCMlOaYMHkv55TUQFxA71fxE1LpgpmL1G_o8YennFwBhar2I_LNmJjGjvLHVQy8tSRfYdLnUIHhKyD0FTZBzXyG_s8U4Pt97n9hPz68ZFSM42Qv6Qxuk74TQygHJXhjLWXNuD5mMsh8_MAs-nmhSToNFIyWoP-uTZ_LN2yQS1o9MB43fzuIIxp-1euXGxMceVVrjyidrYeEB13HS5kMHH-HGjiZhoIJBmu5es7pLPj9Ie8NJZ1K3kFhdVEJa4sLSID=DQAAAL4AAACypRIVyVXcs5zYIeUEt9v-wEwPKgQ8Oe23_URsDeHCg-rR2qQK4dTxPV1J6BPTO-6Zly2H9t4sVhm0vHe8IT6sKLdX2IQ8PgGMtSHQNkpQ8zEan0CyFyUetbSW4af6mlk2pksDpvXNm5GtNTj5eTwkCQUmgGep42u5iuCGFy-o9a1cQWz45NO_J8zIYnBdOqlheNTqaMWpi4hpr-_u8Muzs4RjlEbkuYfDu7MrdsJAFwxf0BVW2cGBtB-K2jwaK7wAuth=873hdyjsbcvuei73hckwoxnaodbc8dnskc8HU1mKRqxh6yEU-9tqx148GqC7h90_190ZzxpEZOHAH5HTptliylRXvMPyqPyijMNu21bOA6ZhvZFuL8YNB3KF63YuV0n5TFJd1-rMI2LQIdPMVBnsxnEGrLIeFOugAFCZ_3OelAc4XjeKdDvIowxkNnvaooXT4kxtkQWzieA3JRKy3Y-Lbi7E0qiXC99GtHVDh5VWvdTs2LCv3wnRULtLp6ZCoToZ8qoUWMzU9PZldsKSnE

Answer 1

import re

text = "SID=DQAAALsAAABCeyCMlOaYMHkv55TUQFxA71fxE1LpgpmL1G_o8YennFwBhar2I_LNmJjGjvLHVQy8tSRfYdLnUIHhKyD0FTZBzXyG_s8U4Pt97n9hPz68ZFSM42Qv6Qxuk74TQygHJXhjLWXNuD5mMsh8_MAs-nmhSToNFIyWoP-uTZ_LN2yQS1o9MB43fzuIIxp-1euXGxMceVVrjyidrYeEB13HS5kMHH-HGjiZhoIJBmu5es7pLPj9Ie8NJZ1K3kFhdVEJa4sLSID=DQAAAL4AAACypRIVyVXcs5zYIeUEt9v-wEwPKgQ8Oe23_URsDeHCg-rR2qQK4dTxPV1J6BPTO-6Zly2H9t4sVhm0vHe8IT6sKLdX2IQ8PgGMtSHQNkpQ8zEan0CyFyUetbSW4af6mlk2pksDpvXNm5GtNTj5eTwkCQUmgGep42u5iuCGFy-o9a1cQWz45NO_J8zIYnBdOqlheNTqaMWpi4hpr-_u8Muzs4RjlEbkuYfDu7MrdsJAFwxf0BVW2cGBtB-K2jwaK7w*Auth=*873hdyjsbcvuei73hckwoxnaodbc8dnskc8HU1mKRqxh6yEU-9tqx148GqC7h90_190ZzxpEZOHAH5HTptliylRXvMPyqPyijMNu21bOA6ZhvZFuL8YNB3KF63YuV0n5TFJd1-rMI2LQIdPMVBnsxnEGrLIeFOugAFCZ_3OelAc4XjeKdDvIowxkNnvaooXT4kxtkQWzieA3JRKy3Y-Lbi7E0qiXC99GtHVDh5VWvdTs2LCv3wnRULtLp6ZCoToZ8qoUWMzU9PZldsKSnE"
m = re.search('Auth=(.+)',text).groups()[0]
print m

Results in: '*873hdyjsbcvuei73hckwoxnaodbc8dnskc8HU1mKRqxh6yEU-9tqx148GqC7h90_190ZzxpEZOHAH5HTptliylRXvMPyqPyijMNu21bOA6ZhvZFuL8YNB3KF63YuV0n5TFJd1-rMI2LQIdPMVBnsxnEGrLIeFOugAFCZ_3OelAc4XjeKdDvIowxkNnvaooXT4kxtkQWzieA3JRKy3Y-Lbi7E0qiXC99GtHVDh5VWvdTs2LCv3wnRULtLp6ZCoToZ8qoUWMzU9PZldsKSnE'