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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Email Groups

Posted by Michael Blum
Michael Blum
254 Points

Bummer! Didn't get a regex search object. Python-regex

I can't see anything wrong in my code. I keep getting this error : " Bummer! Didn't get a regex search object." Both lines work out perfectly when are tested alone but don't work at all together.

emails.py 
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.findall(r'''
    ^(?P<email>[-\w\d.+]+@[-\w\d.+]+),\s
    (?P<phone>'\d{3}-+\d{3}-+\d{4}')$
''', string, re.X)

1 Answer

Nathan Tallack
Nathan Tallack
22,160 Points
Nathan Tallack
Nathan Tallack
22,160 Points

Your regex pattern is a string literal. If you are splitting them over multiple lines using concatenation you need to close each one so that the newline is not part of it. Your code would look like this in that case.

contacts = re.findall(r''
    '^(?P<email>[-\w\d.+]+@[-\w\d.+]+),\s'
    '(?P<phone>'\d{3}-+\d{3}-+\d{4}')$'
    '', string, re.X)
Michael Blum
Michael Blum
254 Points

Thank you!