formatting plain text to html

[Cliff, or a close facsimile]

Pada 13 Sep 1999 21:06:04 +0100, david.maslen at iname.com bilang:
| I have a bunch of plain text notes. I want to format them so that any
| URL references ie. 'http://www.python.org/' are replaced by 
| '<a href="http://www.python.org/">http://www.python.org/</a>' 
| 
| There are probably a few other niceties such as replacing linefeeds
| with <p>, but that isn't so important.
| 
| Should I just get started with the strings and re modules? Or is there 
| some code in existance that will make this task easier?

I don't know, but the following seems to work:

>>> teststr='look at my webpage http://www.python.org/ I am so l33t'
>>> re.sub('(http://[\w\-\?%~./]+)', r'<A HREF="\1">\1</A>', teststr)
'look at my webpage <A HREF="http://www.python.org/">http://www.python.org/"</A
> I am so l33t'

Are there any other characters permitted in URL's?


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