Steve Holden schrieb: > Precisely. But your example had only one group "(b)" in it, which is > retrieved using m.group(1). So the subgroups are numbered starting from > 1 and subgroup 0 is a special case which returns the whole match. > > 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. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
