https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/11c61b52d30e413a58db296eec97949c2c7d8fe4 commit: 11c61b52d30e413a58db296eec97949c2c7d8fe4 branch: 3.13 author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]> committer: JelleZijlstra <[email protected]> date: 2026-02-21T05:42:39Z summary:
[3.13] gh-144694: Fix re.Match.group() doc claiming [1..99] range limit (GH-144696) (#145066) gh-144694: Fix re.Match.group() doc claiming [1..99] range limit (GH-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. (cherry picked from commit 85021bc2477f3ab394172b6dda3110e59f4777dd) Co-authored-by: Mohsin Mehmood <[email protected]> files: M Doc/library/re.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst index 7a43723e119e5e..efebc819ddaf7c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/re.rst +++ b/Doc/library/re.rst @@ -1404,10 +1404,10 @@ 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. :: _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-checkins.python.org Member address: [email protected]
