[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > url = re.compile(r"((http|ftp|https)\:\/\/)(www)?([a-zA-Z]{1}([\w\-]+ > \.)+([\w]{2,5}))(:[\d]{1,5})?((/?\w+/)+|/?)(\w+ > \.[\w]{3,4})?((\?\w+=\w+)?(&\w+=\w+)*)?") > > damn i hate these things. > > i want it to only match http://www.name.any/etc > > not http://wiki.x etc
Why don't you use urlparse and check the result yourself? Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list