I am trying to search inside the response of a request (I used Requests and Python). I get the response and check the type of it, which is UNICODE.

I want to retrieve a specific link which is located between two other strings.
I have tried different ways found online such as the:

* `result = re.**search**('Currently: <a ', s)`
* `url_file = response.**find**('Currently: <a ', beg=0, end=len(response))`

Also tried to transform the UNICODE string to a normal string:

* `s = unicodedata.normalize(response, title).encode('ascii','ignore')`

I get an error. 

**EDITED**

For example:

This works:

```
    s = 'asdf=5;iwantthis123jasd'
    result = re.search('asdf=5;(.*)123jasd', s)
    print result.group(1)

```

This doesn't work (returns error):

```
    s = 'Currently: <a '
    result = re.search(r.text, s)
    print result.group(1)

```