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Python

Kishore Kumar
Kishore Kumar
5,451 Points
Posted by Kishore Kumar
Kishore Kumar
5,451 Points

Reading Files

I am using the same code that Kenneth is using but not getting the same o/p. I am using pycharm to run my code.

Code:

import re

name_file = open("names.txt", encoding="utf-8")
data = name_file.read()
name_file.close()
# print(data)
# last_name = r'Love'
# first_name = r'Kenneth'
print(re.match(r'Love', data))
print(re.search(r'Kenneth', data))

o/p:

C:\Users\Kishore\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\python.exe C:/Users/Kishore/PycharmProjects/RegularExpression/address_book.py

None
<_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(7, 14), match='Kenneth'>

Process finished with exit code 0
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,404 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,404 Points

Hi Kishore, can you add what output you were expecting?

The match returns None since the entire data does not match "Love" exactly.

Did you intend to use groups by adding parens to mark group?

>>> print(re.search(r'(Love)', string).groups())
('Love',)
>>>

1 Answer

Iain Simmons
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,304 Points

re.match only matches the beginning of a string. re.search matches anywhere in the string.