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Shawndee Boyd
5,917 PointsMake a new variable, twitters
I am confuse as to what I have wrong. Please help.
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.X|re.M)
print(contacts)
twitters = (re.search(r'@[\w\d]+)$', contacts, re.M))
2 Answers
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,167 PointsWhen I run your code in ipython I get:
twitters = (re.search(r'@[\w\d]+)$', contacts, re.M))
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
error Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-29-713b44e409ce> in <module>()
----> 1 twitters = (re.search(r'@[\w\d]+)$', contacts, re.M))
/usr/lib/python2.7/re.pyc in search(pattern, string, flags)
140 """Scan through string looking for a match to the pattern, returning
141 a match object, or None if no match was found."""
--> 142 return _compile(pattern, flags).search(string)
143
144 def sub(pattern, repl, string, count=0, flags=0):
/usr/lib/python2.7/re.pyc in _compile(*key)
242 p = sre_compile.compile(pattern, flags)
243 except error, v:
--> 244 raise error, v # invalid expression
245 if not bypass_cache:
246 if len(_cache) >= _MAXCACHE:
error: unbalanced parenthesis
There are some missed placed parens In the line:
twitters = (re.search(r'@[\w\d]+)$', contacts, re.M))
- The parens wrapping the whole statement are unnecessary and should be removed.
- Add missing open paren to group the "twitter" group. Open "(" between
r'and@. The close ")" appears to be in the correct place.
Try this:
twitters = re.search(r'(@[\w\d]+)$', string, re.M)
Shawndee Boyd
5,917 PointsThank you, Chris! I was just thinking too fast.