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Yuqing Lu
7,032 Pointswhy can´t my code work?
can anyone suggest what I did wrong or ignored in this code snippet?
import re
# EXAMPLE:
# >>> find_words(4, "dog, cat, baby, balloon, me")
# ['baby', 'balloon']
def find_words(count, string):
result = re.findall(r"\w{count,}", string)
return result
2 Answers
Christopher Shaw
Python Web Development Techdegree Graduate 58,248 PointsFirst, you need to convert the count to a string: count=str(count)
Next you need to concatenate the count into the string for evaluation: result = re.findall(r"\w{"+count+",}", string)
Yuqing Lu
7,032 Pointsgreat, thank you, Christopher