python find a double quoted specific string

Question

I have a block of HTML and I want to do the following.

if html.find('pid":"') != -1:
  # do something

and it always returns -1 . BUT 'pid":' (only one dbl quote works, but finds the wrong tag)

Answer 1

It seems that I was looking at the request.content, but searching on the request.text. And the text I was looking for was eliminated in the request.text version.