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

using groupdict() method to pass re.search patterns into a class

Wow! OK, now, create a class named Player that has those same three attributes, last_name, first_name, and score. I should be able to set them through init.

So I'm using the groupdict() on my players (list? tuple? I'm actually not sure what re.search gives us) . Not sure what is exactly wrong.

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]+),\s
    (?P<first_name>[\w\s]+):\s
    (?P<score>[\d]+)
''', string, re.X| re.M)

class Player:

  def __int__(self, **players.groupdict()):
    self.last_name = players.groupdict('last_name')
    self.first_name = players.groupdict('first_name')
    self.score = players.groupdict('score')

1 Answer

Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson
40,533 Points

search returns a match object, which is why it has the groupdict method.

For your class definition there's a few things. For the magic method:

def __int__(self, **players.groupdict()):

You were probably looking for __init__ instead of __int__. __int__ also happens to be a magic method, but it's for how you deal with conversions to an int.

Another thing is that since you're defining the function you can't put **players.groupdict() in the signature, you just want to define a name for that argument. You will, however, want to define the __init__ method in such a way that you could unpack the result of groupdict in order to construct a Player, like this:

# ...

class Player(object):
  def __init__(self, last_name, first_name, score):
    # Do all the assignment here. No call to groupdict
    # is required.

# You don't need this line for the challenge.
# This is just to show how you could create 
# a new player with groupdict.
example = Player(**players.groupdict())