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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Groups

Dmitriy Ignatiev
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Dmitriy Ignatiev
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Posted by Dmitriy Ignatiev
Dmitriy Ignatiev
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re.search groupdict()

how to find all matches and makes dict within multiply string

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+.]+@[\w.]+),\s
                    (?P<phone>\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4})
                                       ''', string, re.X|re.M)

return only information from one line{'email': 'kenneth+challenge@teamtreehouse.com', 'phone': '555-555-5555'}

i need to get a dict with all emails and phone which string is contain {'email': 'kenneth+challenge@teamtreehouse.com', 'phone': '555-555-5555' email: 'andrew@teamtreehouse.co.uk', phone: '555-555-5556' ....till end of string}

How it could be solved?

1 Answer

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as you can see in order to find the proper characters, I had to add a few things to your code

(1) import re

(2)move the ,\s in-between email and phone

(3)add - \d to your email set in order to capture all the characters.

(4)The print statement was so that i could ensure that i got the right output in my python editor, and this is what i got:

{'email': 'kenneth+challenge@teamtreehouse.com', 'phone': '555-555-5555'}

and here is my code, I hope this helps.

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.groupdict())