from __future__ import unicode_literals import re _URL_PATTERN = r''' ^((([A-Za-z]{3,9}:(?:\/\/)?)(?:[-;:&=\+\$,\w]+@)?[A-Za-z0-9.-]+|(?:www.|[-;:&=\+\$,\w]+@)[A-Za-z0-9.-]+)((?:\/[\+~%\/.\w\-_]*)?\??(?:[-\+=&;%@.\w_]*)#?(?:[\w]*))?)$ '''.strip() TOKEN_MATCH = re.compile(_URL_PATTERN).match __all__ = ['TOKEN_MATCH']