[pulec@archus python]$ ipython
Python 3.5.2 (default, Jun 28 2016, 08:46:01)
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

IPython 5.1.0 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
?         -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features.
%quickref -> Quick reference.
help      -> Python's own help system.
object?   -> Details about 'object', use 'object??' for extra details.

In [1]: import re, json
   ...:
   ...: #define RIL html file and compile regex for base url
   ...: ril_file = '/home/pulec/ril_export_www.html'
   ...: re_http_link = re.compile = ".*(http://[\w.-]+)"
   ...:
   ...: #load RIL file and put all in ril_data list
   ...: with open(ril_file, 'r') as ril_file_h:
   ...:     ril_data = ril_file_h.read().split('\n')
   ...:

In [2]: ril_data[1]
ERROR:root:Internal Python error in the inspect module.
Below is the traceback from this internal error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py", line 2881, in run_code
    exec(code_obj, self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns)
  File "<ipython-input-2-c935d39c02d5>", line 1, in <module>
    ril_data[1]
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/IPython/core/displayhook.py", line 243, in __call__
    if result is not None and not self.quiet():
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/IPython/core/displayhook.py", line 94, in quiet
    tokens = list(tokenize.generate_tokens(sio.readline))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/tokenize.py", line 601, in _tokenize
    pseudomatch = _compile(PseudoToken).match(line, pos)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/tokenize.py", line 173, in _compile
    return re.compile(expr, re.UNICODE)
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py", line 1821, in showtraceback
    stb = value._render_traceback_()
AttributeError: 'TypeError' object has no attribute '_render_traceback_'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/IPython/core/ultratb.py", line 1132, in get_records
    return _fixed_getinnerframes(etb, number_of_lines_of_context, tb_offset)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/IPython/core/ultratb.py", line 313, in wrapped
    return f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/IPython/core/ultratb.py", line 358, in _fixed_getinnerframes
    records = fix_frame_records_filenames(inspect.getinnerframes(etb, context))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/inspect.py", line 1453, in getinnerframes
    frameinfo = (tb.tb_frame,) + getframeinfo(tb, context)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/inspect.py", line 1414, in getframeinfo
    lines, lnum = findsource(frame)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/IPython/core/ultratb.py", line 223, in findsource
    pat = re.compile(r'^(\s*def\s)|(.*(?<!\w)lambda(:|\s))|^(\s*@)')
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

[pulec@archus python]$ python
Python 3.5.2 (default, Jun 28 2016, 08:46:01)
[GCC 6.1.1 20160602] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import re, json
>>>
>>> #define RIL html file and compile regex for base url
... ril_file = '/home/pulec/ril_export_www.html'
>>> re_http_link = re.compile = ".*(http://[\w.-]+)"
>>>
>>> #load RIL file and put all in ril_data list
...
>>> with open(ril_file, 'r') as ril_file_h:
...     ril_data = ril_file_h.read().split('\n')
...
>>> ril_data[1]
'<li><a href="http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/" time_added="1424841193" tags="">Index of /~amitp/game-programming</a></li>'
>>> re.match(re_http_link, ril_data[1]).group(1)
'http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu'