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sulaiman gannas
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 17,651 PointsNeed the solution
What is the solution for this question?
import re
# EXAMPLE:
# >>> find_words(4, "dog, cat, baby, balloon, me")
# ['baby', 'balloon']
def find_words(a_count, a_string):
return re.findall(r'\w+', a_string)
1 Answer
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherYou're really close. You don't need +, which will find any 1-or-more occurrences of a word character. You need an open-ended count, which we do like \w{5,}. This will find 5+ word characters in a row. You don't know the number, though. You get it as an argument to the function. So can you think of a way to build the regex string so that it has the count variable in it?