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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Escapes

Posted by Kristine Saryan
Kristine Saryan
1,386 Points

Don't know what I'm doing wrong here

Not sure what is wrong here. Please help

escapes.py 
import re
def first_number(my_string):
    return re.match (r'\d', my_string)

1 Answer

Umesh Ravji
Umesh Ravji
42,386 Points
Umesh Ravji
Umesh Ravji
42,386 Points

Hi Kristine, you are calling the match method when you should be using the search method. You may also want to remove the space between the method call and the first ( bracket.