from re import IGNORECASE from re import compile as re_compile HOST_REGEX = re_compile( # max length for domain name labels is 63 characters per RFC 1034 r'((?:[A-Z0-9](?:[A-Z0-9-]{0,61}[A-Z0-9])?\.)+)' + r'(?:[A-Z0-9-]{2,63}(?