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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Email Groups

Sathya Musanipalli
Sathya Musanipalli
2,265 Points
Posted by Sathya Musanipalli
Sathya Musanipalli
2,265 Points

Why am I getting a regex search error?

It keeps saying that it’s not getting the “regex search object” but I can’t really find wha the problem is. I have looked at other questions by other treehouse students, but when I try what works for them, it gives me the error.

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.search(r'''
    (P<email>[-\w\d+.]+@[-\w\d.]+),\s
    (P<phone>\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}),\s
''', string, re.M)

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points

This pattern is in the verbose style, but the re.X flag needed to indicate that is missing from the flags argument.

Also, the syntax for creating named groups requires a question mark between the open parenthesis and the "P" — for example: (?P<name>...).