import re b = 'http://m...content-available-to-author-only...d.txt --- blablabla --- http://m...content-available-to-author-only...d.txt' matches = re.findall(r'http.*?\.id\.txt', b) print matches
Standard input is empty
['http://m...content-available-to-author-only...d.txt', 'http://m...content-available-to-author-only...d.txt']