python - Regex for links in html text

Question

I hope this question is not a RTFM one. I am trying to write a Python script that extracts links from a standard HTML webpage (the <link href... tags). I have searched the web for matching regexen and found many different patterns. Is there any agreed, standard regex to match links?

Adam

UPDATE: I am actually looking for two different answers:

1. What's the library solution for parsing HTML links. Beautiful Soup seems to be a good solution (thanks, Igal Serban and cletus!)
2. Can a link be defined using a regex?

Answer 1

Regexes with HTML get messy. Just use a DOM parser like Beautiful Soup.