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Posted by Paul Bentham
Paul Bentham
24,090 Points

Not getting correct Twitter results?

My variable is set as below:

twitters = re.search(r'(?P<twitter>@[\w\d]+)?$', string, re.M)

But this gives me: Bummer! Couldn't get all of the Twitter handles. Got ['', '@chalkers', '@joykesten', '@davemcfarland', '@kennethlove'].

It looks like i'm getting an additional ", " before the @'s, how can I avoid this?

1 Answer

Juan Martin
Juan Martin
14,335 Points

Hello my friend.

You have a little mistake, and that's an extra "?" at the end before the "$", the code should look like this:

twitters = re.search(r'(?P<twitter>@[\w\d]+)$', string, re.M)

Hope this helps :)

Paul Bentham
Paul Bentham
24,090 Points

That worked thankyou! Why in idle would this only print out the first result?