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Python re: no such group

I am new to Python. I can't figure out why this code doesn't work:

reOptions = re.search(
    "[\s+@twitter\s+(?P<login>\w+):(?P<password>.*?)\s+]",
    document_text)
if reOptions:
    login = reOptions.group('login')
    password = reOptions.group('password')

I got the error:

IndexError: no such group

With document_text

Blah-blah
[@twitter va1en0k: somepass]
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[

and ]

are special regex characters. Run them to match the literal [

and ]

. See Regular Expression Syntax .



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You need to avoid the brackets [and] both \[

and \]

.



\[\s+@twitter\s+(?P<login>\w+):(?P<password>.*?)\s+\]
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