Practice Quiz: Advanced Regular Expressions

12. We're working with a CSV file, which contains employee information. Each record has a name field, followed by a phone number field, and a role field. The phone number field contains U.S. phone numbers, and needs to be modified to the international format, with "+1-" in front of the phone number. Fill in the regular expression, using groups, to use the transform_record function to do that.

import re
def transform_record(record):
new_record = re.sub(___)
return new_record

print(transform_record("Sabrina Green,802-867-5309,System Administrator"))
# Sabrina Green,+1-802-867-5309,System Administrator

print(transform_record("Eli Jones,684-3481127,IT specialist"))
# Eli Jones,+1-684-3481127,IT specialist

print(transform_record("Melody Daniels,846-687-7436,Programmer"))
# Melody Daniels,+1-846-687-7436,Programmer

print(transform_record("Charlie Rivera,698-746-3357,Web Developer"))
# Charlie Rivera,+1-698-746-3357,Web Developer

  • new_record = re.sub(r”,([\d-]+)”,r”,+1-\1″ ,record)
     

13. The multi_vowel_words function returns all words with 3 or more consecutive vowels (a, e, i, o, u). Fill in the regular expression to do that.

import re
def multi_vowel_words(text):
pattern = ___
result = re.findall(pattern, text)
return result

print(multi_vowel_words("Life is beautiful"))
# ['beautiful']

print(multi_vowel_words("Obviously, the queen is courageous and gracious."))
# ['Obviously', 'queen', 'courageous', 'gracious']

print(multi_vowel_words("The rambunctious children had to sit quietly and await their delicious dinner."))
# ['rambunctious', 'quietly', 'delicious']

print(multi_vowel_words("The order of a data queue is First In First Out (FIFO)"))
# ['queue']

print(multi_vowel_words("Hello world!"))
# []

  • pattern = r”\b\w*[aeiou]{3,}\w*\b”
     

14. When capturing regex groups, what datatype does the groups method return?

  • A string
  • A tuple
  • A list
  • A float

15. The transform_comments function converts comments in a Python script into those usable by a C compiler. This means looking for text that begins with a hash mark (#) and replacing it with double slashes (//), which is the C single-line comment indicator. For the purpose of this exercise, we'll ignore the possibility of a hash mark embedded inside of a Python command, and assume that it's only used to indicate a comment. We also want to treat repetitive hash marks (##), (###), etc., as a single comment indicator, to be replaced with just (//) and not (#//) or (//#). Fill in the parameters of the substitution method to complete this function:

import re
def transform_comments(line_of_code):
result = re.sub(___)
return result

print(transform_comments("### Start of program"))
# Should be "// Start of program"
print(transform_comments(" number = 0 ## Initialize the variable"))
# Should be " number = 0 // Initialize the variable"
print(transform_comments(" number += 1 # Increment the variable"))
# Should be " number += 1 // Increment the variable"
print(transform_comments(" return(number)"))
# Should be " return(number)"

  • result = re.sub(r”#+”, r”//”, line_of_code)
     

16. The convert_phone_number function checks for a U.S. phone number format: XXX-XXX-XXXX (3 digits followed by a dash, 3 more digits followed by a dash, and 4 digits), and converts it to a more formal format that looks like this: (XXX) XXX-XXXX. Fill in the regular expression to complete this function.

import re
def convert_phone_number(phone):
result = re.sub(___)
return result

print(convert_phone_number("My number is 212-345-9999.")) # My number is (212) 345-9999.
print(convert_phone_number("Please call 888-555-1234")) # Please call (888) 555-1234
print(convert_phone_number("123-123-12345")) # 123-123-12345
print(convert_phone_number("Phone number of Buckingham Palace is +44 303 123 7300")) # Phone number of Buckingham Palace is +44 303 123 7300

  • result = re.sub(r”\b(\d{3})-(\d{3})-(\d{4})\b”, r”(\1) \2-\3″, phone)
     

Devendra Kumar

Project Management Apprentice at Google

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