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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Email Groups

Posted by Tinotenda Mangarai
Tinotenda Mangarai
3,828 Points

Great! Now, make a new variable, twitters that is an re.search()

Please help. I don't know what is wrong with my code

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, re.I | re.M)

twitters=re.search(r'''
  (?P<twitter>@[^t][\w\d]+)''', string, re.I | re.M)

1 Answer

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

You are SO close! The flag re.I says to ignore case. Perhaps you want the flag re.X which means verbose

More info in the re docs

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