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tkbx
tkbx

Reputation: 16275

Regex for three words not working?

I need a regex for three words, seperated by spaces. I tried this:

>>>match = re.search('\w\s\w\s\w', 'cat dog mouse')
>>>match.group()
....
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

Shouldn't \w\s\w\s\w accept "word word word"?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 60

Answers (1)

tripleee
tripleee

Reputation: 189327

No, it only accepts words which are one letter long. You are probably looking for \w+, and quite possibly the whole regex should be ^\s*\w+\s+\w+\s+\w+\s*$ with or without the optional surrounding whitespace \s*.

Upvotes: 5

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