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Jason Smith
8,668 Pointsi can't figure out why i'm not getting back a regex search object!
please help, i've been stuck on this one for a long time
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{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}?)', string)
3 Answers
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,457 PointsYou are very close. Remember to include a comma and a space \s between the two groups.
Post back if you need more help. Good luck!
Jason Smith
8,668 Pointsi also need help with the second part of the challenge, can you explain why i'm getting the same error despite providing a regex statement?
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{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}?)', string)
twitters = re.search(r'''^@\w{8,}\b
$''', string, re.MULTILINE)```
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,457 PointsThere are two issues:
- remove the leading caret ^ as this anchors the pattern at the beginning of the line preventing a match
- add the re.VERBOSE switch to allow a whitespace and newlines to be ignored in the pattern definition. Remember to use the pipe symbol | to “or” switches together.
Jason Smith
8,668 Pointsthank you so much! i got past it