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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Compiling and Loops

Flore W
Flore W
4,744 Points

Has anyone done the Extra Credit? Can you share what you've done?

At the end of the Regex course, Kenneth mentions some extra credit:

"Write a class to represent a person based on the information in the text file. They should have names, email addresses, phone numbers, jobs, and Twitter accounts. Remember, some of these can be blank, though!

To go ever further, make a class to act as as address book to hold all of the people class instances created above. Can you make it searchable?"

Can anyone who's done it share their solutions? I am still not comfortable with classes, so would appreciate to get hints of how to do it. Thanks!

Aaron Banerjee
Aaron Banerjee
6,876 Points

Hi Flore, I by mistake did the extra credit challenge during the last code challenge of regular expressions because I was not thinking properly. I did it for a first name, last name, and score, but a twitter account ,phone number, and job can easily be added here by changing the players variable. Here is what I did

class Player:
    def __init__(self,st):
        players  = re.compile('''
    ^(?P<last_name>[-.\w ]+),\s
    (?P<first_name>[-.\w ]+):\s
    (?P<score>[\d]+)$
''',re.X|re.M)
        for match in players.finditer(st):
            a= "{last_name},{first_name},{score}".format(**match.groupdict())
        self.last_name,self.first_name,self.score=a.split(",")

1 Answer

Oskar Lundberg
Oskar Lundberg
9,534 Points

I know this was asked a long time ago, but if someone wants to have a look, here is some code I wrote: I know this could be done it better ways, but at this point, I'm just gonna leave the extra credits behind.

import re

names_file = open("names.txt", encoding="utf-8")
data = names_file.read()
names_file.close()

line = re.compile(r"""
    ^(?P<name>(?P<last>[-\w ]*),\s(?P<first>[-\w ]+))\t  # Last and first names
    (?P<email>[-\w\d.+]+@[-\w\d.]+)\t  # Email
    (?P<phone>\(?\d{3}\)?\-?\s?\d{3}-\d{4})?\t  # Phone
    (?P<job>[\w\s]+,\s[\w\s.]+)\t?  # Job and company
    (?P<twitter>@[\w\d]+)?$  # Twitter
""", re.X|re.M)


class Person():
    def __init__(self, name, email, job, phone=None, twitter=None, **kwargs):
        self.name = name
        self.email = email
        self.job = job
        self.phone = phone
        self.twitter = twitter
        for key, value in kwargs.items():
            setattr(self, key, value)

    def __repr__(self):
        cool_list = []
        if self.phone:
            cool_list.append("Phone: <{}>".format(self.phone))
        if self.twitter:
            cool_list.append("Twitter: <{}>".format(self.twitter))
        return "Name: <{}>, Email: <{}>, Job: <{}>, ".format(self.name, self.email, self.job) + ", ".join(cool_list)        

    def __str__(self):
        return self.name


class AddressBook(list):
    def __init__(self):
        self.address_book = []

    def add_person(self, person):
        # Todo: fix so this goes smoother
        """Supply with a Person. must have the attributes 'first' and 'last' for first and last name
        Adds that person to the addres_book
        """
        try:
            person.first
            person.last
        except AttributeError:
            print("The person needs to have the attributes 'first' and 'last' for first and last name")
        else:
            return self.append(person)


    def show_person(self, first_name=None, last_name=None):
        # Todo: Add so it's not case sensitive
        person_list = []
        if first_name:
            first_name = first_name.lower()
        if last_name:
            last_name = last_name.lower()
        for person in self:
            if str(person.first).lower() == first_name or str(person.last).lower() == last_name:
                person_list.append(person)
        if len(person_list) == 1:
            return person_list[0]
        elif len(person_list) == 0:
            if first_name and last_name:
                print("Couldn't find any person with the firstname: {} and/or lastname: {}".format(first_name, last_name))
            elif first_name:
                print("Couldn't find any person with the firstname: {}".format(first_name))
            elif last_name:
                print("Couldn't find any person with the lastname: {}".format(last_name))
        else:
            person_list_exact = []
            for person in person_list:
                if str(person.first).lower() == first_name and str(person.last).lower() == last_name:
                    person_list_exact.append(person)
            if len(person_list_exact) == 1:
                return person_list_exact[0]
            elif len(person_list_exact) == 0:
                while True:
                    print("There are multiple persons who match some of your criteria")
                    print("Please choose one from the below choices, choose by index")
                    for index, person in enumerate(person_list, 1):
                        print("{}: {}".format(index, person))
                    answer = input(">  ")
                    if isinstance(answer, str): # <-- Fix this
                        answer = answer.lower()
                        possible_persons = []
                        for person in person_list:
                            if answer in str(person.name).lower():
                                possible_persons.append(person)
                        if len(possible_persons) == 1:
                            return possible_persons[0]
                        if first_name == None:
                            for person in person_list:
                                if answer == str(person.first).lower():
                                    return person
                        if last_name == None:
                            for person in person_list:
                                if answer == str(person.last).lower():
                                    return person
                    try:
                        person_index = int(answer)
                        if person_index <= 0 or person_index > len(person_list):
                            raise IndexError
                    except ValueError:
                        print("\n  ** {} wasn't even a number lmao **".format(answer))
                        continue
                    except IndexError:
                        print("\n ** {} wasn't even on the list lmao **".format(answer))
                        continue
                    return person_list[person_index-1]
            elif len(person_list_exact) >= 2:
                print("Found multiple persons who matched exact your criterias:")
                return person_list_exact


my_address_book = AddressBook()
for match in line.finditer(data):
    my_address_book.append(Person(**match.groupdict()))

my_address_book.add_person(Person(name="Boi", email=None, job=None, first="Boi", last="boiiiiiiiii"))
print("My address book:")
for person in my_address_book:
    print(person.first)