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Python: Convert email address to HTML link

I'm looking for a stand-alone python function that will take in a string and return a string with the email addresses converted to links.

Example:

>>>s = 'blah blah blah [email protected] blah blah blah'
>>>link(s)
'blah blah blah <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> blah blah blah'
Solution

  • Something like this?

    import re
import xml.sax.saxutils

def anchor_from_email_address_match(match):
    address = match.group(0)
    return "<a href=%s>%s</a>" % (
        xml.sax.saxutils.quoteattr("mailto:" + address),
        xml.sax.saxutils.escape(address))

def replace_email_addresses_with_anchors(text):
    return re.sub("\w+@(?:\w|\.)+", anchor_from_email_address_match, text)

print replace_email_addresses_with_anchors(
    "An address: [email protected], and another: [email protected]")