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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Email Groups

Y B
Y B
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Y B
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Regex email groups.

The individual parts work, but not sure how to combine them? A \t in between the two groups doesn't work either?

emails.py 
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.]+)(?P<phone>[\d-]+)', string)

5 Answers

Kenneth Love
STAFF
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Well, the string has a comma and a space between them. Try that? :D

Y B
Y B
14,136 Points
Y B
Y B
14,136 Points

Ah I always seem to fail at the silly bits.

Thanks.

David B Dinkins
David B Dinkins
71,472 Points
David B Dinkins
David B Dinkins
71,472 Points

I'm having a similar sort of issue. I think I've added the \s, characters in close to the right place because I am getting some content in my regex search object.

But the error shows that I'm only getting the first entries, Email: "kenneth+challenge@teamtreehouse.com,", Phone: "555-555-5555". Here's my code:

contacts = re.search(r'''(?P<email>[-\w\d+.]+@[-\w\d.\s,]+)(?P<phone>\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4})''', string)
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Looks like you're catching the comma and space in the email group. You shouldn't, that's messy data and not part of a valid email address. The comma and space are meant as separators between the two bits of data.

Mike Smith
Mike Smith
11,863 Points
Mike Smith
Mike Smith
11,863 Points

I'm still stumped!!
This code:

<p>contacts = re.search(r'(?P<email>[-\w\d+.]+@[-\w\d.]+)([,\s]+)(?P<phone>\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4})', string, re.X|re.M)</p>

results in : 

 <p> contacts.groupdict() = {'email': 'kenneth+challenge@teamtreehouse.com', 'phone': '555-555-5555'}</p>

What am I missing?

David B Dinkins
David B Dinkins
71,472 Points

You've got to remove any html tags. I'd also check your ([,\s]+) between the groups. It's looking for more than you need it to.

David B Dinkins
David B Dinkins
71,472 Points
David B Dinkins
David B Dinkins
71,472 Points

Alright, I moved the comma and the space around and it worked. Thanks!

I finally got the second task completed, too--I was over thinking it.