import re


def remove_links(text):
    """
    Helper function to remove the links from the input text

    Args:
        text (str): A string

    Returns:
        str: the same text, but with any substring that matches the regex
        for a link removed and replaced with a space

    Example:
        >>> from tweet_parser.getter_methods.tweet_text import remove_links
        >>> text = "lorem ipsum dolor https://twitter.com/RobotPrincessFi"
        >>> remove_links(text)
        'lorem ipsum dolor  '
    """
    tco_link_regex = re.compile("https?://t.co/[A-z0-9].*")
    generic_link_regex = re.compile("(https?://)?(\w*[.]\w+)+([/?=&]+\w+)*")
    remove_tco = re.sub(tco_link_regex, " ", text)
    remove_generic = re.sub(generic_link_regex, " ", remove_tco)
    return remove_generic