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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Players Dictionary and Class

hugo dahl
hugo dahl
2,967 Points
Posted by hugo dahl
hugo dahl
2,967 Points

how? answer pls

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players.py 
import re

string = '''Love, Kenneth: 20
Chalkley, Andrew: 25
McFarland, Dave: 10
Kesten, Joy: 22
Stewart Pinchback, Pinckney Benton: 18'''

players = re.search(r''' ^(?P<last_name>[-\w\s*\w*]+), \s(?P<first_name>[-\w\s*\w]+): \s(?P<score>[\d]+)$ ''',string, re.X | re.M)

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points

Your code passes task 1 as-is, so I assume you're asking about task 2. The instructions ask you to "create a class named Player that has those same three attributes, last_name, first_name, and score.". But they could have been a bit more explicit about how they will be set. It turns out the challenge will pass them in as keyword arguments.

So, you can do this using a bit of standard Python boilerplate code (which is totally unrelated to regular expressions!):

class Player:
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        for key, value in kwargs.items():
            setattr(self, key, value)
hugo dahl
hugo dahl
2,967 Points
hugo dahl
hugo dahl
2,967 Points

is this all the code needed or do i need to use this with the rest?

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points

Remember that the instructions say "Important: In each task of this code challenge, the code you write should be added to the code from the previous task."