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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Word Length

Kars Jansens
Kars Jansens
5,348 Points

How can I do this? {PYTHON}

Create a function named find_words that takes a count and a string. Return a list of all of the words in the string that are count word characters long or longer.

I tried a lot of things but nothing worked. So can someone please help?

word_length.py
import re

# EXAMPLE:
# >>> find_words(4, "dog, cat, baby, balloon, me")
# ['baby', 'balloon']

def find_words(num, string):
    return re.findall(, string)

1 Answer

this will work!

def find_words(count, text):
    ss = re.findall(r'\w+' * count, text)
    return ss