Ex3. Regular expressions

[nellcla]

Hello!,
Can I write about Ex.3? Hope so,
I am doing the regular expression and some of my tries have been:

pattern = re.compile (r'</?\w{2,}>')
pattern = re.compile (r'</?\w{2,}.?>')
pattern = re.compile (r'<.?\w{2,}.?>')

For all of these answers I receive the same errors:

[TMC] Your regular expression could not find both opening and closing tags. Did you use all the parts of a regular expression mentioned in the exercise?

[TMC] The variable "pattern" was defined successfully! 1 point.

[TMC] The variable "pattern" does not contain a string object. Remember that the regular expression must be defined using a string object!

Could you suggest what I am doing wrong?

[olcede]

I'm not at that part yet, but is it maybe because you left a space between them by accident? Like: re.compile__(r'</?\w{2,}>') when I assume it should be: re.compile(r'</?\w{2,}>') ? Ignore me if I'm completely wrong lol, this was just a guess

[nellcla]

Thanks olcede,

I fixed that space, however I still get the same error message. It looks like the error is not only for the regex itself, but also something is missing that the program does not recognize my string object.

[mavela]

@nellcla you are doing it a bit too fast - you need to first define the regex and then, separately, compile it. if you look at the next bit of the exercise you may see that the compilation is only the next part?

[nellcla]

Thanks @mavela, I realised it afterward (when I surrendered and continued with the exercise).

Currently I have another problem:
I wrote print(updated_text)
Error message: Your solution did not print the string object! Did you remember to use the print() function to print the string object stored under "updated_text"?

[mavela]

Hmm now it's super hard to tell only based on your description. Are you sure you have saved before running tmc test? Or could your print function be commented out? Somehow it seems that something is wrong with it and it is not found.