REgex names

Better formatted solution is:

import re

string = 'Perotto, Pier Giorgio'

names = re.match(r'''
    ^(?P<last_name>[\w]*),\s                # Last name
    (?P<first_name>[\w\s\w]*)$           # First name
''', string, re.X)

import re

string = 'Perotto, Pier Giorgio'

names = re.match(r'([\w]*), ([\w]+ [\w]+)', string)

print(names)

That first name has a space in it and your pattern doesn't catch spaces...

Ok so here it goes the solution

names = re.match(r'^(?P<firstname>[\w]*),\s(?P<lastname>[\w\s\w]*)',string,re.X|re.M) 

I am pretty sure you can skip the re.M but well it was there

I must be doing something wrong more than that as it doesn't work - I can't get anything to pick up even if I just try last name only, first names only...... It always seems to return None for some reason?

import re

string = 'Perotto, Pier Giorgio'

names = re.match('r([\w]*), ([\w]+ [\w]+)', string)

print(names)

Challenge Task 1 of 1

Create a variable names that is an re.match() against string. The pattern should provide two groups, one for a last name

match and one for a first name match. The name parts are separated by a comma and a space.

import re

string = 'Perotto, Pier Giorgio'

names = re.match(r'^(?P<firstname>[\w]),\s(?P<lastname>[\w\s\w])',string)

Hmm I still can't get this to work

I used:

names = re.match('r([\w]*) ,([\w]+ [\w]+)', string)

which I interpret as (for the first name) a block of 1 or more letters followed by a space and another block of one or more letters.

Y B,

The 'r([\w]*) , ([\w....... is looking for a word AND a space before the comma.

Ron

Aaargh! Thank you......

This question is referring to the following 'Name Groups" challenge: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/regular-expressions-in-python/introduction-to-regular-expressions/name-groups

"Challenge Task 1 of 1 Create a variable names that is an re.match() against string. The pattern should provide two groups, one for a last name match and one for a first name match. The name parts are separated by a comma and a space."

first of all, the r tag should be out side of the quotation mark second, you need to consider the space in between Pier and Giorgio

Hello,

I am also having trouble with this Challenge.

First, I have tried the following code and it returns 'None':

names = re.match(r''' ([\w]),\s([\w\s\w]) ''', string, re.X)

I even copied the following code from this post and it also returned 'None':

names = re.match(r''' ^(?P<last_name>[\w]),\s (?P<first_name>[\w\s\w])$ ''', string, re.X)

I assume that I am missing something blindly obvious to make it return None, does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

The second issue I'm having is that has an error saying: 'Module 're' has no 'X' member). Why is that? I am running the code on Repl.it on Python 3.6.1 if that relevant.

import re

string = 'Perotto, Pier Giorgio' names = re.match(r'([\w]*),\s([\w ] *)', string, re.X | re.M)