content = re.findall(r'<code> (.*?) </code>', _file)

>>> data = '<code>12345</code>'
>>> re.findall(r'<code> (.*?) </code>', data)
4: []
>>> re.findall(r'<code>(.*?)</code>', data)
5: ['12345']

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<code>

<form method="GET" action="">
	<table class="records" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" border="1" width="100%">
		<tr>
			<td colspan="7">
				<p>Записей на странице: <input name="page_size" size=5> <input type="submit" name="changepagesize" value="   >>   "></p></form>
			</td>
		</tr>
		<tr><td colspan="7">&nbsp;</td></tr>

		<tr bgcolor="#e0e0e0" align="center" valign="middle">
			<th>ID наряда:</th>
			<th>Дата создания:</th>
			<th>Адрес:</th>
			<th>Тип:</th>
			<th>Склад:</th>

			<th>Создатель:</th>
			<th>Подробно:</th>
		</tr>
		
		<tr bgcolor="#f0f0f0" align="left">
			<td>2097033770</td>
			<td><nobr>30.05.11 09:02</nobr></td>
			<td><nobr>вул. Маршала Малиновського, 25г, 1 под.</nobr></td>

			<td>close</td>
			<td><span style='color:red;'>Сдан</span></td>
			<td>Вознюк Вячеслав</td>
			<td><a href="../problems/view/2097033770" onclick="window.open('../problems/view/2097033770', '_new', 'resizeble=1, scrollbars=1, width=550, height=700, toolbars=0'); return false"><img src="../../img/detail.gif" border="0" title="Подробно"/></a></td>
		</tr>
		
		......................................
		
	</table>
</code>
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filename = dirname(page.path)+"/problems_naryad.any"
_file = open(filename, 'r').read()

content = re.findall(r'<code>(.*?)</code>', _file)

print content

re.findall(r'<code>(.*?)</code>', data, re.DOTALL)