title: Find Hyperlinks in Text using Python (twitter related)
body: <p>How can I parse text and find all instances of hyperlinks with a string? The hyperlink will not be in the html format of <code>&lt;a href="http://test.com"&gt;test&lt;/a&gt;</code> but just <code>http://test.com</code></p>
  
  <p>Secondly, I would like to then convert the original string and replace all instances of hyperlinks into clickable html hyperlinks.</p>
  
  <p>I found an example in this thread:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32637/easiest-way-to-convert-a-url-to-a-hyperlink-in-a-c-string">Easiest way to convert a URL to a hyperlink in a C# string?</a></p>
  
  <p>but was unable to reproduce it in python :(</p>