Players, dictionary and class code challenge

Question

i have completed the code challenge only by looking at other peoples answers. This one seems pretty tricky.

one thing i do not get is this:

?P<last_name>[-\w\s\w]+),\s

why is it we have a hyphen in the set and two '\w' in the pattern, why not one? also why does the ',\s' need to be outside the brackets

also i just do not get the how this init function works here. i think I might be just over complicating it for myself. why are we using init here any way?

players.py

import re

string = '''Love, Kenneth: 20
Chalkley, Andrew: 25
McFarland, Dave: 10
Kesten, Joy: 22
Stewart Pinchback, Pinckney Benton: 18'''

players = re.search(r'''
          ^(?P<last_name>[-\w\s\w]+),\s
          (?P<first_name>[-\w\s*\w]+):\s
          (?P<score>[\d]+)?$
''', string, re.X | re.M)

Answer 1 · 2016-02-08T05:57:24Z

February 8, 2016 5:57am

For the first question: the hyphen and the * and the redundant \w are not needed. As you mentioned, a set (or character class) is defined, repeating members of the set has no effect., Since there are no * are hyphens in the data, they aren't needed in the sets:

players = re.search(r'''
          ^(?P<last_name>[\w\s]+),\s
          (?P<first_name>[\w\s]+):\s
          (?P<score>[\d]+)?$
''', string, re.X | re.M)

The second part of the challenge is a bit disconnected from the regex lesson. Task 2 is looking for a function that has an __init__ method that takes three arguments and sets the attributes of the instance to these values;

class Player():
    def __init__(self, last_name, first_name, score):
        self.last_name = last_name
        self.first_name = first_name
        self.score = score

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