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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Email Groups

Benjamin Guyton
Benjamin Guyton
6,858 Points
Posted by Benjamin Guyton
Benjamin Guyton
6,858 Points

bad character range??

I'm receiving an error message of bad character range in line 3, which would be the strings in string provided by the problem. I have not seen this error before and am not too sure what it means. I feel like my code for contacts is correct, would love some feedback here please.

emails.py 
import re

string = '''Love, Kenneth, kenneth+challenge@teamtreehouse.com, 555-555-5555, @kennethlove
Chalkley, Andrew, andrew@teamtreehouse.co.uk, 555-555-5556, @chalkers
McFarland, Dave, dave.mcfarland@teamtreehouse.com, 555-555-5557, @davemcfarland
Kesten, Joy, joy@teamtreehouse.com, 555-555-5558, @joykesten'''

contacts = re.search(r'''
                    (?P<email>[\w+.]+@[\w.]+),\s
                    (?P<phone>[\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}),\s
                    ''', string, re.I|re.X)
ygh5254e69hy5h545uj56592yh5j94595682hy95
ygh5254e69hy5h545uj56592yh5j94595682hy95
7,934 Points

Your code:

(?P<email>[\w+.]+@[\w.]+),\s
(?P<phone>[\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}),\s

Code that I researched and worked:

(?P<email>[-\w\d.+]+@[-\w\d.]+),\s
(?P<phone>\(?\d{3}\)?-?\s?\d{3}-\d{4}),\s

I don't know much about python because I'm currently working on C#, but I'm just trying to help! Good luck,

Also, you got the bad character range error because you forgot to put ] here --> 

(?P<phone>[\d{3}*right here*-\d{3}-\d{4}),\s