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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Email Groups

Posted by MUZ140057 Dumisani Nyamusa
MUZ140057 Dumisani Nyamusa
8,029 Points

REGULAR EXPRESSIONS

Create a new variable named contacts that is an re.search() where the pattern catches the email address and phone number from string. Name the email pattern email and the phone number pattern phone. The comma and spaces * should not* be part of the groups.

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'''

2 Answers

Daniel Johnstone
Daniel Johnstone
8,420 Points
Daniel Johnstone
Daniel Johnstone
8,420 Points

Kenneth Love has attitude. Gimme the answers.

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

I'm not going to give anyone the answers, Daniel Johnstone. What have you tried that hasn't worked?

MUZ140348 Sympathy Makururu
MUZ140348 Sympathy Makururu
10,209 Points
MUZ140348 Sympathy Makururu
MUZ140348 Sympathy Makururu
10,209 Points

For the sake of those who will find this difficult try this:

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''' #<-- Wrap in multiline quote. Remove leading caret (^) (?P<email>[-\w\d.+]+@[-\w\d.]+) ,\s (?P<phone>\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4})''' #<-- Add closing paren. Remove extra backslashes. Remove trailing $ , string, re.X | re.M) #<-- Add verbose (for multiline quote), and multiline (for muliple lines in string) flags