I want to find matches between a tweet and a list of strings containing words, phrases, and emoticons. Here is my code:
words = [':)','and i','sleeping','... :)','! <3','facebook']
regex = re.compile(r'%s|(:(|:))+' % '\b|\b'.join(words), flags=re.IGNORECASE)
I keep receiving this error:
error: unbalanced parenthesis
Apparently there is something wrong with the code and it cannot match emoticons. Any idea how to fix it?
See Question&Answers more detail:os