Question about parsing a string

[Nico Grubert]

Hi there,

I would like to parse a string in Python.

If the string is e.g. 'http://www.whatever.org' I would like
to generate this string:
'<a href="http://www.whatever.org">http://www.whatever.org</a>'

If the string is e.g. 'My link' I
would like to generate this string:
'<a href="http://www.whatever.org">My link</a>'

Any idea how I can do this? Maybe with regular expressions?

Thanks in advance,
Nico

 

[Alex Martelli]

Hi there,

I would like to parse a string in Python.

If the string is e.g. 'http://www.whatever.org' I would like
to generate this string:
'<a href="http://www.whatever.org">http://www.whatever.org</a>'

If the string is e.g. 'My link' I
would like to generate this string:
'<a href="http://www.whatever.org">My link</a>'

Any idea how I can do this? Maybe with regular expressions?

If you know the string always starts with '')
url = s[_startlen:where_closebracket]
txt = s[where_closebracket+1:-_endlen]
if not txt: txt = url
return '<a href="%s">%s</a>' % (url, txt)

I've just typed in this code without trying it out, but roughly it
should be what you want.


Alex