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(skip issue) Respect Isaac Newton and Malcolm Reynolds by reverting their removal in #31137 by samhaese · Pull Request #150807 · python/cpython · GitHub

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46 changes: 23 additions & 23 deletions Doc/library/re.rst
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Expand Up @@ -1450,15 +1450,15 @@ when there is no match, you can test whether there was a match with a simple
If a group is contained in a part of the pattern that matched multiple times,
the last match is returned. ::

>>> m = re.search(r"\A(\w+) (\w+)", "Norwegian Blue, pining for the fjords")
>>> m = re.search(r"\A(\w+) (\w+)", "Isaac Newton, physicist")
>>> m.group(0) # The entire match
'Norwegian Blue'
'Isaac Newton'
>>> m.group(1) # The first parenthesized subgroup.
'Norwegian'
'Isaac'
>>> m.group(2) # The second parenthesized subgroup.
'Blue'
'Newton'
>>> m.group(1, 2) # Multiple arguments give us a tuple.
('Norwegian', 'Blue')
('Isaac', 'Newton')

If the regular expression uses the ``(?P<name>...)`` syntax, the *groupN*
arguments may also be strings identifying groups by their group name. If a
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A moderately complicated example::

>>> m = re.search(r"(?P<adjective>\w+) (?P<animal>\w+)", "killer rabbit")
>>> m.group('adjective')
'killer'
>>> m.group('animal')
'rabbit'
>>> m = re.search(r"(?P<first_name>\w+) (?P<last_name>\w+)", "Malcolm Reynolds")
>>> m.group('first_name')
'Malcolm'
>>> m.group('last_name')
'Reynolds'

Named groups can also be referred to by their index::

>>> m.group(1)
'killer'
'Malcolm'
>>> m.group(2)
'rabbit'
'Reynolds'

If a group matches multiple times, only the last match is accessible::

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This is identical to ``m.group(g)``. This allows easier access to
an individual group from a match::

>>> m = re.search(r"(\w+) (\w+)", "Norwegian Blue, pining for the fjords")
>>> m = re.search(r"(\w+) (\w+)", "Isaac Newton, physicist")
>>> m[0] # The entire match
'Norwegian Blue'
'Isaac Newton'
>>> m[1] # The first parenthesized subgroup.
'Norwegian'
'Isaac'
>>> m[2] # The second parenthesized subgroup.
'Blue'
'Newton'

Named groups are supported as well::

>>> m = re.search(r"(?P<adjective>\w+) (?P<animal>\w+)", "killer rabbit")
>>> m['adjective']
'killer'
>>> m['animal']
'rabbit'
>>> m = re.search(r"(?P<first_name>\w+) (?P<last_name>\w+)", "Isaac Newton")
>>> m['first_name']
'Isaac'
>>> m['last_name']
'Newton'

.. versionadded:: 3.6

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the subgroup name. The *default* argument is used for groups that did not
participate in the match; it defaults to ``None``. For example::

>>> m = re.search(r"(?P<adjective>\w+) (?P<animal>\w+)", "killer rabbit")
>>> m = re.search(r"(?P<first_name>\w+) (?P<last_name>\w+)", "Malcolm Reynolds")
>>> m.groupdict()
{'adjective': 'killer', 'animal': 'rabbit'}
{'first_name': 'Malcolm', 'last_name': 'Reynolds'}


.. method:: Match.start([group])
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