I was trying to delete all opening a-tags from html-code using python and Regular Expressions.

Here is my problem: If the code looks like this:

html_code = """<a href="test.html">This</a> is an <a href="example.html">example</a>"""

And I will apply this:

re.sub("""<a href=".*">""", "", html_code)

the computer will delete everything except

example</a>

How can i just get rid of the first a-tag which is referencing to test.html using regular expressions? After this step I just want to get:

This</a> is an <a href="example.html">example</a>

Thank you so much in advance!