how can I use this regular expression to validate a valid url in python

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I have this regular expression to validate that a string is a valid url:

/((([A-Za-z]{3,9}:(?:\/\/)?)(?:[-;:&=\+\$,\w]+@)?[A-Za-z0-9.-]+(:[0-9]+)?|(?:www.|[-;:&=\+\$,\w]+@)[A-Za-z0-9.-]+)((?:\/[\+~%\/.\w-]*)?\??(?:[-\+=&;%@.\w]*)#?(?:[\w]*))?)/

I do not know how to use it.

url="www.google.com"
print(re.compile(r'/((([A-Za-z]{3,9}:(?:\/\/)?)(?:[-;:&=\+\$,\w]+@)?[A-Za-z0-9.-]+(:[0-9]+)?|(?:www.|[-;:&=\+\$,\w]+@)[A-Za-z0-9.-]+)((?:\/[\+~%\/.\w-]*)?\??(?:[-\+=&;%@.\w]*)#?(?:[\w]*))?)/',url))

Can someone give me a hand please? thank you

Do to use random regular expressions to validate URLs. Almost all of them are flawed. Use specialized tools. — DYZ
– DYZ, Commented Mar 17, 2019 at 5:39

Mntfr · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-17 04:15:54Z

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For starters you don't need the first and last slash python automatically uses them, secondly you need to make your expression a re object

import re
expr = re.compile(r'((([A-Za-z]{3,9}:(?:\/\/)?)(?:[-;:&=\+\$,\w]+@)?[A-Za-z0-9.-]+(:[0-9]+)?|(?:www.|[-;:&=\+\$,\w]+@)[A-Za-z0-9.-]+)((?:\/[\+~%\/.\w-]*)?\??(?:[-\+=&;%@.\w]*)#?(?:[\w]*))?)')

after that you can use the function match to see if the expression returns a valid instance

url="www.google.com"

if expr.match(url):
    print("It is valid")

answered Mar 17, 2019 at 4:15

Mntfr

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