Merge pull request mattmakai#151 from aoberoi/update-slack-bot-tut-regex

mattmakai · web-flow · commit e4a32608e71b · 2018-01-30T07:03:58.000-05:00
makes username regex capture group non-greedy, fixes mattmakai#150
diff --git a/content/posts/160604-build-first-slack-bot-python.markdown b/content/posts/160604-build-first-slack-bot-python.markdown
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ variable values and then instantiate the Slack client.
     # constants
     RTM_READ_DELAY = 1 # 1 second delay between reading from RTM
     EXAMPLE_COMMAND = "do"
-    MENTION_REGEX = "^<@(|[WU].+)>(.*)"
+    MENTION_REGEX = "^<@(|[WU].+?)>(.*)"
 
 
 The code instantiates the `SlackClient` client with our `SLACK_BOT_TOKEN`
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ starterbot_id = None
 # constants
 RTM_READ_DELAY = 1 # 1 second delay between reading from RTM
 EXAMPLE_COMMAND = "do"
-MENTION_REGEX = "^<@(|[WU].+)>(.*)"
+MENTION_REGEX = "^<@(|[WU].+?)>(.*)"
 
 def parse_bot_commands(slack_events):
     """
