Python regular expression again - match url

Question

I have such regexp:

 re.compile(r\"((https?):((//)|(\\\\\\\\))+[\\w\\d:#@%/;$()~_?\\+-=\\\\\\.&]*)\", re.MULTILINE|re.UNICODE)

But that

Answer 1

I'll admit that I'm a little bit worried about an application that requires a regex like that to match URLs. That said, this seems to work for me:

((https?):((//)|(\\\\))+([\w\d:#@%/;$()~_?\+-=\\\.&](#!)?)*)