Find & Replace hyperlinks in a string

[MonkeeSage]

On Nov 27, 1:37 am, Nico Grubert <nicogrub... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have a string containing some hyperlinks. I'd like to replace every
> hyperlink with a HTML style link.
>
> Example:
> --------
> Replace
>    'http://www.foo.com/any_url'
> with
>    '<a href="http://www.foo.com/any_url">http://www.foo.com/any_url</a>'
>
> What's the best way to do this if I have a few hundret strings to check?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Nico

Well, this isn't the most robust and someone will probably say not to
use regular expressions, but the Q&D way is:

import re
fixed = re.sub(r'(http:[^\s\n\r]+)', r'<a href="\1">\1</a>',
your_string)

NB. If the URLs are malformed (like have spaces in them, or are broken
over several lines) this won't work right.

Regards,
Jordan