Regex for links in html text

Question

I hope this question is not a RTFM one. I am trying to write a Python script that extracts links from a standard HTML webpage (the tags). I hav

Answer 1

Answering your two subquestions there.

1. I've sometimes subclassed SGMLParser (included in the core Python distribution) and must say it's straight forward.
2. I don't think HTML lends itself to "well defined" regular expressions since it's not a regular language.