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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Word Length

omri luz
omri luz
5,148 Points
Posted by omri luz
omri luz
5,148 Points

whats wrong with my code

i dont know whats wrong with my code i even looked at the community and did the same but it still doesnt work

word_length.py 
import re
# EXAMPLE: 
# >>> find_words(4, "dog, cat, baby, balloon, me") 
# ['baby', 'balloon'] 
def find_words(c, s):
    return re.findall(r'\w{c,}', s)

1 Answer

John Lack-Wilson
John Lack-Wilson
8,181 Points
John Lack-Wilson
John Lack-Wilson
8,181 Points

The problem here is that the 'c' variable is being treated as the literal character 'c', rather than the integer that you want it to be treated as.

Below code should work for you

def find_words(c,s):
    regex = r'\w{'+str(c)+',}'
    return re.findall(regex,s)

So the variable regex is being assigned the regular expression to pass to the findall function. This allows us to treat the c variable as a number and convert it to a string with, the str() function, so that the count is passed correctly as a string.