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Start your free trialMarkus von der Lรผhe
2,036 PointsI don't understand what output is expected. I did define groups and when running it in my own editor it returns the data
What is th expected output?
import re
string = '''Love, Kenneth: 20
Chalkley, Andrew: 25
McFarland, Dave: 10
Kesten, Joy: 22
Stewart Pinchback, Pinckney Benton: 18'''
pattern = r'''
(?P<last_name>[\w]+),?\s?
(?P<first_name>\s[\w]+):\s
(?P<score>[\d]+)
'''
players = re.match(pattern, string, re.X|re.M )
1 Answer
Steven Parker
231,072 PointsIt's easy to miss, but look very carefully at the error message:
Bummer: Didn't get the expected match. Got "{'last_name': 'Love', 'first_name': ' Kenneth', 'score': '20'}".
You can see that ' Kenneth'
has a space inside the quotes, right at the front. The regex should handle a space between the names, but not capture one as part of a name.
Once that's fixed, you'll also need a few tweaks to mark the line boundaries and to accommodate special cases such as the multiple-word names in the last example.