How to use the pipe operator as part of a regular expression?

Question

I want to match the url within strings like

u1 = \"Check this out http://www.cnn.com/stuff lol\"
u2 = \"see http://www.cnn.com/stuff2\"
u3 = \"http://www.esp         


        

Answer 1

Non-grouping matches.

re.findall("[^ ]*.(?:cnn|espn).[^ ]*", u1)