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benjamin siverly
3,430 PointsThis works fine on pythex.org, but won't work to capture Twitter on task 2 of 2
Sorry to bug - I got past the first task, but now the second won't work. I checked my regex search on pythex.org and used the exact phrase I made, but I'm getting the 'try again' error, which doesn't seem.
I'm needing to make a re.search() for the twitter handles (starting with '@' and not including space before) which are at the at the end of the lines (so my code ends in '$') and uses re.MULTILINE to make sure it was grabbed...
Still can't seem to get it to pass....
import re
string = '''Love, Kenneth, kenneth+challenge@teamtreehouse.com, 555-555-5555, @kennethlove
Chalkley, Andrew, andrew@teamtreehouse.co.uk, 555-555-5556, @chalkers
McFarland, Dave, dave.mcfarland@teamtreehouse.com, 555-555-5557, @davemcfarland
Kesten, Joy, joy@teamtreehouse.com, 555-555-5558, @joykesten'''
contacts = re.search(r'''
(?P<email>[-\w\d.+]+@[-\w\d.]+),\s
(?P<phone>\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4})
''', string, re.X, re.M)
twitters = re.search(r'''
@\w+$
''', string, re.MULTILINE)
return contacts, twitters
2 Answers
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherI'm not sure why you're constantly using the multi-line strings. I don't think they'll affect it but I wouldn't add that extra bit of complexity in there. FWIW, r'(?P<twitter>@\w+)$' passed for me. I only used the re.M flag.
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherYou don't add multiple flags with commas (remember, these are bits so we have to use bitwise operations on them. That got called out in the videos). Secondly, you're using a multi-line regex pattern without using the re.X flag, so it's looking for newlines.
benjamin siverly
3,430 PointsHmm... Not sure how I got the first bit to run before... Fixed that.
Still unable to get the second part to pass.
twitters = re.search(r'''
(?P<twitter>@\w+)$
''', string, re.X | re.M )