https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/85021bc2477f3ab394172b6dda3110e59f4777dd
commit: 85021bc2477f3ab394172b6dda3110e59f4777dd
branch: main
author: Mohsin Mehmood <[email protected]>
committer: JelleZijlstra <[email protected]>
date: 2026-02-20T21:36:26-08:00
summary:
gh-144694: Fix re.Match.group() doc claiming [1..99] range limit (#144696)
The documentation incorrectly stated that numeric group arguments
must be in the range [1..99]. This limit was removed in Python 3.5
(bpo-22437). Replace with "a positive integer" since the next
sentence already documents the IndexError for out-of-range values.
files:
M Doc/library/re.rst
diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
index cc11d0205dc5cb..7edb85ca507722 100644
--- a/Doc/library/re.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -1434,10 +1434,10 @@ when there is no match, you can test whether there was
a match with a simple
result is a single string; if there are multiple arguments, the result is a
tuple with one item per argument. Without arguments, *group1* defaults to
zero
(the whole match is returned). If a *groupN* argument is zero, the
corresponding
- return value is the entire matching string; if it is in the inclusive range
- [1..99], it is the string matching the corresponding parenthesized group.
If a
- group number is negative or larger than the number of groups defined in the
- pattern, an :exc:`IndexError` exception is raised. If a group is contained
in a
+ return value is the entire matching string; if it is a positive integer, it
is
+ the string matching the corresponding parenthesized group. If a group
number is
+ negative or larger than the number of groups defined in the pattern, an
+ :exc:`IndexError` exception is raised. If a group is contained in a
part of the pattern that did not match, the corresponding result is
``None``.
If a group is contained in a part of the pattern that matched multiple
times,
the last match is returned. ::
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