File "myfile.py", line 22
    if re.search('^ion': u'..', u'b', line) :
                       ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

import pytumblr
import re

returned = client.submission('blog') # get the submissions for a given blog

sch = open('returned')
for line in sch:
    line = line.rstrip()
    if re.search('^ion': u'..', u'b', line) :
        print line