[Tutor] error message

[Liam Clarke]

Try breaking it down to

> import re
> string = 'My phone is 410-995-1155'
> pattern = r'\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}'

x = re.match(pattern, string)
x.group()

See if that offers any improvement.


On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 17:01:33 -0800 (PST), Ron Nixon <nixonron at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm dping something very simple in RE.
> 
> Lets say I'm trying to match an American Phone number
> 
> I write the code this way and try to match it:
> import re
> string = 'My phone is 410-995-1155'
> pattern = r'\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}'
> re.match(pattern,string).group()
> 
> but I get this error message
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:/Python24/findphone", line 4, in -toplevel-
>     re.match(pattern,string).group()
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'
> 
> 
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