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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Email Groups

Posted by Cross Ender
Cross Ender
9,567 Points

Variable 'twitters' is not working

The variable 'twitters' is plain not getting the right values.

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.+]+),\s(?P<phone>\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4})', string)
twitters = re.search(r'\b@[\d\w]+\b', string)

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,457 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,457 Points

You are very close! Two issues:

  • need to include end-of-line (EOL) anchor $ to the end of the pattern. This will differentiate between the @ in the email and in the twitter handle.
  • remove the leading \b. The @-sign is already a "word boundary" marker, so it's not necessary. Also with it present, it means a word boundary is needed just before the @-sign instead of a space.

Also, the trailing \b is redundant with the EOL anchor.

Post back if you need more help. Good luck!!!