Re: Help debugging code - Negative lookahead problem

2017-02-26 Thread michael . gauthier . uni
WOW, many thanks guys, Peter, and MRAB, for your time, help, and explanations! Peter, yes, you're right, when things get too complicated I should definitely try to split things up, and thus split the difficulties (ah, Descartes... ^^), thanks for the advice! MRAB, your code is now working, than

Re: Help debugging code - Negative lookahead problem

2017-02-26 Thread michael . gauthier . uni
Hi MRAB, Thanks for taking time to look at my problem! I tried your solution: r"\d{2}\s?(?=(?:years old\s?|yo\s?|yr old\s?|y o\s?|yrs old\s?|year old\s?)(?!son|daughter|kid|child))" but unfortunately it does seem not work. Also, I tried adding the negative lookaheads after every one of the a

Help debugging code - Negative lookahead problem

2017-02-26 Thread michael . gauthier . uni
Hi everyone, So here is my problem. I have a bunch of tweets and various metadata that I want to analyze for sociolinguistic purposes. In order to do this, I'm trying to infer users' ages thanks to the information they provide in their bio, among others. For that I'm using regular expressions t