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

vincent schouten
vincent schouten
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Posted by vincent schouten
vincent schouten
9,687 Points

getting incomplete score with challenge players.py

I wrote the code for this challenge but it returns the score incompletely; instead of '20', it returns '2'. Can somebody help me out? Thanks

players = re.search(r''' (?P<last_name>[\w]+) ,\s (?P<first_name>[\w]+) :\s (?P<score>[\d{2}]) ''', string, re.X|re.M)

print(players.group()) ## gives "Love, Kenneth: 2" (instead of 20)

2 Answers

Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson
40,533 Points
Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson
40,533 Points

You'll want to drop the square brackets around the score capturing group, since you're not looking for any different types to match, just a specific number of digits.

Don't forget to add names to your groups so you can extract the values, and to capture spaces in names for the last item.

Kenneth Love
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Kenneth Love
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Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

You said the groups were named, ?P but then didn't name them.