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Oti Oritsejafor
3,281 PointsI get back nothing
It just gives me back "[]". Help please?
print(re.findall(r'''
^([-\w ]*,\s[-w\ ]+)\t # Last names and first names.
([-\w\d+.]+@[-\w\d.]+)\t # Email
(\(?\d{3}\)?-?\s?\d{3}-\d{4})?\t # Phone
([\w\s]+,\s[\w\s.]+)\t? # Job and company
(@[\w\d]+)?$ # Twitter
''', data, re.X|re.M))
2 Answers
Oti Oritsejafor
3,281 PointsIt seems that you made a mistake on your second line:
^([-\w ]*,\s[-w\ ]+)\t # Last names and first names. # Change "-w\" to "-\w" and that should fix it.
Cindy Lea
Courses Plus Student 6,497 PointsDo you have a string somewhere that contains any values for checking against? I think you're missing some code. For example from code.runnable.com I found this:
import re
string = "Once you have accomplished small things, you may attempt great ones safely."
# Return all words beginning with character 'a', as a list of strings
print re.findall(r"\ba[\w]*", string)
# ['accomplished', 'attempt']
# Return all words beginning with character 'a', as an iterator yielding match objects
it = re.finditer(r"\ba[\w]*", string)
for match in it:
print "'{g}' was found between the indices {s}".format(g=match.group(), s=match.span())
# 'accomplished' was found between the indices (14, 26)
# 'attempt' was found between the indices (49, 56)
Oti Oritsejafor
3,281 PointsNo, I don't
Oti Oritsejafor
3,281 PointsOti Oritsejafor
3,281 PointsSorry, I meant "it seems I(not you) made a mistake on the second line".