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martinvoigt
1,676 PointsDidn't get a regex object
I do not find the error. What's wrong?
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'''
^[\w]+,\s[\w]+,\s(?P<email>[\w.+]+@[\w.]),\s
(?P<phone>\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}),\s[@\w]+$
''', string, re.X|re.M)
2 Answers
Tate Price
Courses Plus Student 6,463 PointsI hope this helps
contacts = re.search(r'''
(?P<email>[-\w\d.+]+@[-\w\d.]+)
,\s
(?P<phone>\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4})
''', string, re.X|re.M)
Mark Chesney
11,746 PointsThe solution above (posted by Tate) allowed me to pass the Code Challenge. Hooray!
The point of confusion for me, is that I printed contacts. I can see it's a special return object; I just expected something of a more predictable data structure like we'd seen in the past. I'm curious why. (If you recommend I not concern myself about it then that's fine too) :)
# >>> <_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(15, 64), match='kenneth+challenge@teamtreehouse.com, 555-555-5555>
Mark Chesney
11,746 PointsI found the answer, from Tate again (Tate, thank you!)