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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Negation

Sahar Nasiri
Sahar Nasiri
7,454 Points
Posted by Sahar Nasiri
Sahar Nasiri
7,454 Points

I am not getting a same output!

This is my code:

print(re.findall(r""" \b[-\w]+ #Find a word boundary, 1+ hyphens or characters. \s #Find 1 whitespace [-\w ]+ #1+ hyphens and charactes and explicit spaces. [^\t\n] #Ignore tabs and newlines """, data, re.X))

and I get something weird! What is wrong with my code?

2 Answers

Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points
Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points

Hi Sahar - It looks like you're missing the comma. Here's the code:

print(re.findall(r"""
    \b[-\w]*,
    \s
    [-\w ]+
    [^\t\n]
""", data, re.X))