[Tutor] re.findall vs. re.search and re.match

[Max Noel]

On Mar 15, 2005, at 16:44, Ron Nixon wrote:

> Kent:
>
> The code is below. Here's the error message.
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:/Python24/reformat.py", line 5, in
> -toplevel-
>     name = x.group(1)
> AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'group'

	re.findall returns a list object (as the error message says). Use name 
= x[1] instead. (and be careful, numbering starts from 0, so this code 
may contain a Kenobi error).

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