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Joseph Devlin
iOS Development with Swift Techdegree Student 10,403 PointsCan someone explain why this outputs the wrong answer?
When I run my code I get, "Bummer! Got: 12347890." Why is the 7 not being excluded, but the 5 and 6 are?
import re
string = '1234567890'
good_numbers = re.findall(r'\d[^567]', string)
1 Answer
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,720 PointsYou are very, very close to the solution-- the problem wording wasn't explicit enough (in my opinion), it took me several tries to get it right too.
The way you wrote it re.findall(r'\d[^567]',x), you were "finding" all the matches that are 2 CHARACTER STRINGS where the first character is ANY digit and the second character IS NOT either a 5, 6, or 7.
Thus, it would match '12','34','78','90' if the source string is '1234567890'. It would not match '56', or '67', but would match '78'
What they were looking for were single characters that were NOT 5, 6, or 7. That kind of confused me too. What I thought was they wanted me to return '1234','789
See below:
Python 2.7.9 (default, Dec 10 2014, 12:28:03) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
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>>> x='1234567890'
>>> import re
>>> re.findall(r'\d[^567]',x)
['12', '34', '78', '90']
>>>
Either one of these solutions would work, but since the lesson was titled "exclusion" the first is correct.
>>> re.findall(r'[^567]',x)
['1', '2', '3', '4', '8', '9', '0']
>>> re.findall(r'[0-4]|[8-9]',x)
['1', '2', '3', '4', '8', '9', '0']
Joseph Devlin
iOS Development with Swift Techdegree Student 10,403 PointsJoseph Devlin
iOS Development with Swift Techdegree Student 10,403 PointsThis helped. I figured out the right answer by reading another thread, however I still didn't understand quite why my answer wouldn't be pop out the right numbers. I now realize where I was going wrong. Thanks so much!