RegExp problems

I'm trying to replace [URL]www.link.com[/URL] with HTML with this regexp:

topic.text = re.sub("(\[URL\])(.*)(\[\/URL\])", '<a href="$2">$2</a>', topic.text, flags=re.I)

But it's giving me the following problems:

1. The $2 capture group is only able to be repeated once, so I get
   <a href="www.link.com">$2</a>
   instead of 
   <a href="www.link.com">www.link.com</a>
   
2. Only the first [URL] is matched. Everything after the first [/URL] is simply deleted...
   

I hope someone can help me with this. I'm using Python 2.7 if it makes a difference.

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