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Leo Marco Corpuz
18,975 PointsPython regular expressions
Not sure what’s wrong with my code. My error message says it’s getting a nested list output ([[]]).
import re
# EXAMPLE:
# >>> find_words(4, "dog, cat, baby, balloon, me")
# ['baby', 'balloon']
def find_words(count,starg):
string_search=re.findall(r'\w{count,}', starg)
string_list=[]
string_list.append(string_search)
return string_list
1 Answer
Steven Parker
221,070 PointsYou won't need to nest string_search inside another string, you can return it directly.
But you also don't want the word "count" as part of your regex. Instead, use concatenation or formatting to include the value of the count in the regex.