Question

I have this little code and it’s giving me AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘group’.

import sys
import re

#def extract_names(filename):

f = open('name.html', 'r')
text = f.read()

match = re.search (r'<hgroup><h1>(\w+)</h1>', text)
second = re.search (r'<li class="hover">Employees: <b>(\d+,\d+)</b></li>', text)  

outf = open('details.txt', 'a')
outf.write(match)
outf.close()

My intention is to read a .HTML file looking for the <h1> tag value and the number of employees and append them to a file. But for some reason I can’t seem to get it right.
Your help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Just for the sake of completion: your error message just indicate that your regular expression failed and did not return anything…