Help with Regex for domain names

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.3998.1248989346.8015.python-list at python.org>,
MRAB  <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>Nobody wrote:
>> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:29:09 -0700, rurpy wrote:
>> 
>>>> regex = re.compile(r'[\w\-\.]+\.(?:us|au|de)')
>>> You might also want to consider that some country
>>> codes such as "co" for Columbia might match more than
>>> you want, for example:
>>>
>>>   re.match(r'[\w\-\.]+\.(?:us|au|de|co)', 'foo.boo.com')
>>>
>>> will match.
>> 
>> ... so put \b at the end, i.e.:
>> 
>> regex = re.compile(r'[\w\-\.]+\.(?:us|au|de)\b')
>> 
>It would still match "www.bbc.co.uk", so you might need:
>
>regex = re.compile(r'[\w\-\.]+\.(?:us|au|de)\b(?!\.\b)')

If it's a string containing just the candidate domain, you can do

regex = re.compile(r'[\w\-\.]+\.(?:us|au|de)$')
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