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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Phone Numbers

Ralph Langdon
Ralph Langdon
721 Points

Why is this not printing?

I am not sure why this is not printing the phone number I defined as a str? Could someone provide some insight. Thanks!

phone_number.py
import re

"""
    Create a function named phone_numbers that takes a string
    and returns all of the phone numbers in the string using re.findall().
    The phone numbers will all be in the format 555-555-5555.
"""
str = 555-555-5552

def phone_numbers(str):
    print(re.findall(r'\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}', str))

3 Answers

Ralph Langdon
Ralph Langdon
721 Points

I forgot to call the function.

phone_numbers(str)

Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points

The function needs to return the phone numbers not print them.

Ralph Langdon
Ralph Langdon
721 Points

Sorry I did not complete this question properly, I will start a new thread, I would delete this post if I could. Thanks