Here's a small session >>> import re >>> p=re.compile('[a-z]+') >>> m=p.match('abb1a') >>> dir(m) ['__copy__', '__deepcopy__', 'end', 'expand', 'group', 'groupdict', 'groups', 'span', 'start'] >>> help(m.groups) Help on built-in function groups:
groups(...) >>> My question is. How do I interpret the hiven help info groups(...) alt1. Tough luck. There's no help. People are to busy to write reference manuals. alt 2. There are no parameters. The only possibility is m.groups() alt3. Something else Thanks Bob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list