Django middleware to remove links to the current page

django-middleware-remove-selflinks.py

import re

class RemoveSelfLinks:
    ''' 
    Simple middleware, to remove links to the current page.
    This middleware search all these links using regular expression
    and replaces them with <span> elments. <span element must have
    same attributes as <a> element except of 'href'.
    '''
    def process_response(self, request, response):
        if response.status_code == 200:
            link = request.META['PATH_INFO']
            response.content = re.sub(r'<a([^>]+)href="%s"([^>]*)>(.*?(?!</a>)[^<]*)</a>' % link,
                                      r'<span \1 \2>\3</span>',
                                      response.content)
        return response