Bummer! Hmm, no .groups() attribute. Did you do a match?

Question

I have groups in here, but it's not passing. am I supposed to do the triple quotes and the \t here?

names.py

import re

string = 'Perotto, Pier Giorgio'

names = re.match('r(?P<lastname>[\w]*), (?P<firstname>[\w]+ [\w]+)', string)

Answer 1 · 2015-02-02T12:25:45Z

February 2, 2015 12:25pm

import re

string = 'Perotto, Pier Giorgio'

names = re.match(r'(?P<last_name>\w+), \s(?P<first_name>\w+\s\w+)',  string) // that should work

Answer 2 · 2015-02-02T15:41:46Z

February 2, 2015 3:41pm

That'll catch that name but it wouldn't work for a name that doesn't have two words in the "first name" part.

Answer 3 · 2018-11-28T03:27:17Z

November 28, 2018 3:27am

It should be re.match(r'...) instead of re.match('r...).

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