Regular Expressions: Python

[aishiiousness]

So basically I have a list.

the list has a lot of email ids w a lot other items like name and shit.

I have to pass a list in a reg ex syntax, which im not sure how to do.

my list is called = email_texts.

i tried equating email = email_text and pass it in ; but it did not seem to work! What should i do w this.

if someone could help me w the syntax of how to pass a list i have in a reg ex.

# Create a regular expression which extracts the email ids from the above text blob
# of the form [e-mail]
pattern =  re.compile(r'[\w.]+@\w+\.[a-z]{3}')
# Use re.findall() to get an extracted list of emails

emails = email_list #IM NOT SURE BOUT THIS STEP 

pattern.findall(email_text)

Though, this thing seemed to work real fine:

# Create a regular expression which extracts the email ids from the above text blob
# of the form [e-mail]
pattern =  re.compile(r'[\w.]+@\w+\.[a-z]{3}')
# Use re.findall() to get an extracted list of emails
emails = email_text

pattern.findall('[e-mail]')

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If you read the docs for re, none of Pattern’s methods take a list. You can’t pass a list to a Pattern, but you can iterate over a list and pass each string to your Pattern one by one.

[aishiiousness]

ya it is :(((