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2,739 PointsGroups coding exercise
Hey, I'm having problems getting this to work in the workspace. It runs fine in an external python session but in workspace am getting an error:
no .groups() attribute
Could anyone please help? What is groups an attribute of?
Thanks, Matt
import re
string = 'Perotto, Pier Giorgio'
names =re.findall(r'''
(^[\w]*),\s
([-\w]*\s?[-\w]*)
''', string, re.X)
2 Answers
Frederick Pearce
10,677 PointsThe issue is that you are using re.findall instead of what the task asks for, re.match. The code you provide runs fine even in workspaces. Just change to re.match for the task and it passes!
Matt Lunn
2,739 PointsThanks. I really must get into the habit of reading questions properly! :D