Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>> I know what the Zen says about special cases, but in this case the rules
>> were apparently broken with impunity.
> 
> Well, the proposal was to interpret m[i] as m.group(i), for all values
> of i. I can't see anything confusing with that.

it can quickly become rather confusing if you also interpret m[:] as 
m.groups(), not to mention if you add len() and arbitrary slicing to
the mix.  what about m[] and m[i,j,k], btw?

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