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Can someone help please, I am trying to extract some tweets and then perform some basic analysis. I am encountering an error and i suspect its around the below section of the code: I defined a function called word_in_text(word, text). This function return True if a word is found in text, otherwise it returns False def word_in_text(word, text): match = re.search(word, text) I get the following ERROR File “*:**\Anaconda3\lib\re.py”, line 183, in search TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object Thank you |
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Hi and welcome @bintepo , To match using the package that provides regular expressions, you must first craft a regular expression. Here are some handy tools:
After catching up on that and getting to know regular expressions you should be able to re-write the function to let it perform how you’d like to. I know it’s quite a bit to learn but it’s pretty fun and if you’re performing analysis on Tweets regular expressions will come in handy! As always, just post back if you encounter any problems. |
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Hi and welcome @bintepo ,
To match using the package that provides regular expressions, you must first craft a regular expression. Here are some handy tools:
After catching up on that and getting to know regular expressions you should be able to re-write the function to let it perform how you’d like to.
I know it’s quite a bit to learn but it’s pretty fun and if you’re performing analysis on Tweets regular expressions will come in handy!
As always, j…