Python TypeError

The following code snippet fetches content of a url and searches for string of the form "abc-1234"
In this example, the "url http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Orchidaceae/Aa/" does contain a line
<a href="/tpl1.1/record/kew-34">

When matching against this string directly (8 - 10)  the pattern works, but when matching within the for loop, I got TypeError.  Seems like Python is not happy with type mismatch.  How do I fix this?

from urllib.request import Request, urlopen
from urllib.error import  URLError
import re

root = 'http://www.theplantlist.org/'
genurl = '{0}1.1/browse/A/Orchidaceae/Aa/'.format(root)

line = '<a href="/tpl1.1/record/kew-456080">'
p = re.search('<a href="(.*?)record/(.*?)-(\d+)".*?>', line)
print(p.group(2), p.group(3))

try:
	greq = Request(genurl)
except:
	x = 'Error connecting to {0}'.format(genurl)
	sys.exit(x)
		
gresponse = urlopen(greq)

for gline in gresponse:
	#--Example     <a href="/tpl1.1/record/kew-456080">
	p = re.search('<a href="(.*?)record/(.*?)-(\d+)".*?>', gline)
	print("\t",p.group(2),p.group(3))

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