Regex in Python

Question

I am new to python and want to run a code in Python.
Code that I have written is

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
import re

for line in sys.stdin:
    results = re.search('ipAddress=([^&]*])', line)
    if len(results.group(1)) != 0:
        print results.group(1)

Requirement is finding IP address in a string.String will be something like this

blah....ipAddress=173.110.208.118&deviceId

Output: 173.110.208.118

Please let me know what I am doing wrong..

Answer 1

I think you've got one ] too many there. Try

results = re.search('ipAddress=([^&]*)', line)