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Python

Posted by Unashe Mutambashora
Unashe Mutambashora
3,433 Points

Empty lists

Hie guys

Every time I run this code I keep on getting an empty list and I cannot figure out why.

import re

file_name = open("name.txt.py",encoding="utf-8") 
data = file_name.read()
file_name.close() 

print(re.findall(r"""
   ([-\w ]+,\s[-\w ]+)\t 
   ([-\w\d.+]+@[-\w\d]+)\t 
   ([\(?\d{3}\)?-?\s?\d{3}?-?\d{4}])\t 
   ([-\w\s]+,\s[\w\s]+)\t 
   (@[-\w\d]+)\t
""", data, re.X))

[MOD: added ```python formatting -cf]

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points

It might be the final trailing tab \t. Can you include a sample of name.txt?