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user84296
user84296

Reputation: 361

Python Findall not finding anything

I am learning about Regex and am stuck with this code:

import re

resume = '''
    (738) 383-5729
    (373) 577-0492
    (403) 443-2759
    (375) 880-8576
    (641) 576-2342
    (951) 268-8744
    '''

phoneRegex = re.compile(r'\d')

mo = phoneRegex.findall(resume)

print(mo.group())

When I try with search instead of findall, it works. But it can't find any match with findall.

What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1194

Answers (4)

Nusrath
Nusrath

Reputation: 527

Re.findall() module is used when you want to iterate over the lines by line, it will return a list of all the matches not group.

So in your case it returns as list

print(mo[0])

Upvotes: -2

Jonas Byström
Jonas Byström

Reputation: 26159

Since (it looks like) you're just out for the numbers, you could do something like

>>> [''.join(c for c in l if c in '0123456789')  for l in resume.strip().splitlines()]
['7383835729', '3735770492', '4034432759', '3758808576', '6415762342', '9512688744']

That might save you some trouble from internationally formed numbers (such as +46-(0)7-08/123 456 and the like).

Upvotes: 1

Pedro Lobito
Pedro Lobito

Reputation: 98921

It seems that you're trying to match phone numbers in resume, for that you can use:

resume = '''
    (738) 383-5729
    (373) 577-0492
    (403) 443-2759
    (375) 880-8576
    (641) 576-2342
    (951) 268-8744
    '''

mo = re.findall(r'\(\d{3}\) \d{3}-\d{4}', resume)

for x in mo:
    print(x)

Output:

(738) 383-5729
(373) 577-0492
(403) 443-2759
(375) 880-8576
(641) 576-2342
(951) 268-8744

  1. Python Demo

  2. Regex Demo & Explanation

Upvotes: 1

mkrieger1
mkrieger1

Reputation: 23144

findall() returns a simple list of strings matching the pattern.

It has no group() method, just omit that:

>>> print(mo)
['7', '3', '8', '3', '8', '3', '5', '7', '2', '9', '3', '7', '3', '5', '7',
 '7', '0', '4', '9', '2', '4', '0', '3', '4', '4', '3', '2', '7', '5', '9',
 '3', '7', '5', '8', '8', '0', '8', '5', '7', '6', '6', '4', '1', '5', '7', 
 '6', '2', '3', '4', '2', '9', '5', '1', '2', '6', '8', '8', '7', '4', '4']

Upvotes: 4

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