Need help with my code (regular expression)

[shailc]

Beware the dot. It's unescaped in your last version so it can match other characters (including spaces).

>>> re.findall(r"[-+]?[0-9]*.?[0-9]+", "5.72 +45x843 hi 32")
['5.72', '+45x843', ' 32']
>>> re.findall(r"[-+]?\d*\.?\d+", "5.72 +45x843 hi 32")
['5.72', '+45', '843', '32']

Great tip .... thank you