how to strip the domain name in python?

[Michael Bentley]

On Apr 13, 2007, at 11:49 PM, Marko.Cain.23 at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a list of url names like this, and I am trying to strip out the
> domain name using the following code:
>
> http://www.cnn.com
> www.yahoo.com
> http://www.ebay.co.uk
>
> pattern = re.compile("http:\\\\(.*)\.(.*)", re.S)
> match = re.findall(pattern, line)
>
> if (match):
>         s1, s2 = match[0]
>
>         print s2
>
> but none of the site matched, can you please tell me what am i
> missing?

change re.compile("http:\\\\(.*)\.(.*)", re.S) to re.compile("http:\/ 
\/(.*)\.(.*)", re.S)