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String Regex problem

Fazer faizan at jaredweb.com
Tue Nov 25 16:32:02 EST 2003 
djw <dwelch91.nospam at comcast.net> wrote in message news:<fSzwb.293286$HS4.2642954 at attbi_s01>...
> Fazer wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have a string which has a url (Begins with a http://) somewhere in
> > it.  I want to detect such a url and just spit out the url.  Since I
> > am very poor in regex, can someone show me how to do it using a few
> > examples?
> > 
> > Thanks a lot!
> 
> I would look here to improve your re-ex skills:
> 
> http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/
> 
> Also, I find Kodos to be invaluable in developing and debugging regexs. 
> Highly recommended.
> 
> http://kodos.sourceforge.net
> 
> Of course, you could just use urlparse in the standard library...
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Don

Wow awesome!  Thanks a lot for kodos.  I hope I find it useful.  I
have actually found a better solution rather than using regex it self.

Here's my solution and I think it works well:
[x for x in moo.split(' ') if x.startswith('http://')]
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