title: Python: Search for a string with special characters
body: <p>In my python code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>_response = '"hidden" name="transactionA**rr**ay" value="[{&amp;quot;id&amp;quot;:519292,&amp;quot;status&amp;quot;:0,&amp;quot;parentid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot'
  _responseVal = 'transactionA**r**ay" value="[{&amp;quot;id&amp;quot;:'
  _breakStr = ','
  startIndex = _response.find(_responseVal) + len(_responseVal)
  remString = _response[startIndex:]
  print 'Remaining string: '+remString
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am expecting an empty string, as my search characters do not exist, instead i get
      Remaining string: </p>