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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Email Groups

Scott Laughlin
Scott Laughlin
22,402 Points
Posted by Scott Laughlin
Scott Laughlin
22,402 Points

I keep getting "Didn't return a regex object". Should I be specifying all of the fields? Or just e-mail and phone num

How can I fix this?

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.]+@[-\w.]+),\s
                (?P<phone>(\d{3})-(\d{3})-(\d{4}))$
                ''', string, re.X|re.M)

2 Answers

Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson
40,533 Points
Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson
40,533 Points

Since the emails and phone numbers you're matching aren't at the start or end of the input, try removing the '^' and '$' characters.

Also the digits for the phone numbers don't need to have subgroups.