Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Ah, right; I misread his proposal as saying that m[:] should return > [m[0]] + list(m.groups()) (rather, I expected that m.groups() would > include m.group(0)).
match groups are numbered 1..N, not 0..(N-1), in both the API and in the RE syntax (and we don't have much control over the latter). > To answer your first question: it is clearly groups that you want > to index, just as the .group() method indexes groups. so what should len(m) do? </F> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com