Gillou wrote: > re.compile(r'((ftp|http)://[\w-]+(?:\.[\w-]+)*(?:/[\w-\.?=]*)*)') ^ Put a backslash before the last - in the regular expression. 1.5.2 should not have accepted this. It's a bug in 1.5.2. ## Jason Orendorff http://www.jorendorff.com/