Regular expression for getting essid fails sometimes

I've found that Wicd fails to parse the essid in some systems. Wifi driver is marvell sd8686, works with wpa_supplicant -D wext. This is the regular expression used by wicd to get the essid, taken from latest source code revision, in file wnettools.py:

essid_pattern = re.compile('.*ESSID:"(.*?)".*\n', _re_mode)

For some reason my system reports the essid with some trailing numbers that are not part of the essid, like this:

iwlist eth0 scanning
eth0 Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
                    ESSID:"WLAN_1111"
                    [...]
          Cell 02 - Address: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
                    ESSID:"MyHomeWifi" [2]
                    [...]
          Cell 03 - Address: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
                    ESSID:"WLAN_2222" [3]
                    [...]

Wicd seems to be confused with the trailing numbers and will create an invalid wpa_supplicant config. I've verified that this regular expression works for this particular case (as a test, not a real fix because it may fail for others):

essid_pattern = re.compile('.*ESSID:"(.*?)".*\n', _re_mode)