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docs: re.Match.group() does handle numbers >99 #144694
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Documentation
https://docs.python.org/3.14/library/re.html#re.Match.group
if it [groupN arg] is in the inclusive range [1..99], it is the string matching the corresponding parenthesized group.
Unlike \1..\99 notation, .group() is not constrained by 99.
It was constrained up to Python 3.4 (AssertionError: sorry, but this version only supports 100 named groups)
but not since 3.5 (9baa5b2, https://bugs.python.org/issue22437):
>>> re.search('()'*999 + '(y)', 'xy').group(99, 999, 1000)
('', '', 'y')
>>> _sre.MAXGROUPS
1073741823
Activity
pythongh-144694: Fix re.Match.group() doc claiming [1..99] range limit
gh-144694: Fix re.Match.group() doc claiming [1..99] range limit (#14…
pythongh-144694: Fix re.Match.group() doc claiming [1..99] range limit (
pythongh-144694: Fix re.Match.group() doc claiming [1..99] range limit (
[3.14] gh-144694: Fix re.Match.group() doc claiming [1..99] range lim…
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pythongh-144694: Fix re.Match.group() doc claiming [1..99] range limit (
pythongh-144694: Fix re.Match.group() doc claiming [1..99] range limit (