[Tutor] re: Finding an URL

[Danny Yoo]

Hi Terje,

This parsing of URL's in text seems like something that is reinvented
quite a bit.  Perhaps it might be nice for someone to do a review of the
code out there and package it nicely into the Standard library?


The MoinMoin project, I remember, did a bunch of automatic highlighting of
URLs in any page, using its parser.wiki.Parser module:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/moin/MoinMoin/parser/wiki.py?rev=1.91&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

Mailman, too, has its own regular expression for urls, though I can't
remember exactly where it is (I think it's somewhere in its "Pipermail"
archive displayer).


I ported over Tom Christiansen's URL regular expression here:

    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2002-February/012481.html



Best of wishes to you!