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Adam Sommer
62,470 PointsQuestion 1 stops working when answering question 2. My regex works in a shell.
In Python shell this works for a dict with email, phone and twitters keys:
contacts = re.search(r'''
(?P<email>[-\w\d+.]+@[-\w\d.]+),\s
(?P<phone>\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}),\s
(?P<twitters>[@\w\d]+)$
''', string, re.X|re.M)
Not sure why step 1 stops working?
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\d+.]+@[-\w\d.]+),\s
(?P<phone>\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}),\s
(?P<twitters>[@\w\d]+)$
''', string, re.X|re.M)
2 Answers
Adam Sommer
62,470 PointsWoops, read the question better and realized that it wanted another variable and not another name in the current rexeg match thing. Please disregard and carry on :-).
Amaan Marfatia
11,132 PointsSo how did you answer the question? My code for the twitters was
twitters = re.search(r'[^\w]@[\w]+',string,re.M)
and I don't know how to get rid of that space in front of the twitter handle
Adam Sommer
62,470 PointsI used the Twitter regex from the video, I think this is it [@\w\d]+, but you should review the video and double check.