Good Day,

I have a simple Python question that I'm having brain freeze on. This code snippet works. But when I substitue "258 494-3929" with phoneNumber, I get the following error below:

# Compare phone number
phone_pattern = '^\d{3} ?\d{3}-\d{4}$'

# phoneNumber = str(input("Please enter a phone number: "))

if re.search(phone_pattern, "258 494-3929"):
print "Pattern matches"
else:
print "Pattern doesn't match!"

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Pattern does not match
Please enter a phone number: 258 494-3929
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "pattern_match.py", line 16, in
phoneNumber = str(input("Please enter a phone number: "))
File "", line 1
258 494-3929
^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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btw. I did import re and tried using rstrip in case of the \n

What else could I be missing?

TIA,

coson