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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Players Dictionary and Class

Posted by John Wunder
John Wunder
1,660 Points

Struggling on what's wrong with this code challenge? Looks like everything is right but still being rejected.

Response is Bummer score 20 last_name Love first_name Kenneth which is right for first line. Why am I getting an indication it is wrong? https://teamtreehouse.com/library/regular-expressions-in-python/introduction-to-regular-expressions/players-dictionary-and-class . Tried re.search as well in various patterns with and without re.X. My problem is my results look right to me what am I missing?

players.py 
import re

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


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

2 Answers

John Wunder
John Wunder
1,660 Points

Played with it some more...it is very particular about where the spaces are so this works. players = re.compile(r''' ^(?P<last_name>[\w\s]+),\s (?P<first_name>[\w]+): (?P<score>\s[\d]+) ''', re.X|re.M)

Boris Ivan Barreto
Boris Ivan Barreto
6,838 Points
Boris Ivan Barreto
Boris Ivan Barreto
6,838 Points 
players = re.findall(r"""
    ^(?P<last_name>[\w\s]*),\s
    (?P<first_name>[\w\s]*):\s
    (?P<score>[\d]+)$
""", string, re.X|re.M)
John Wunder
John Wunder
1,660 Points

The challenge reads as 'Create a variable named players that is an re.search() or re.match() to capture three groups: last_name, first_name, and score. It should include re.MULTILINE.' so I think I need to use search or match. I tired the findall and it came back with a different error messages. Thanks anyway.