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Sun Dec 3 17:07:08 CET 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-December/070146.html

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Ah, right; I misread his proposal as saying that m[:] should return
> [m[0]] + list(m.groups()) (rather, I expected that m.groups() would
> include m.group(0)).

match groups are numbered 1..N, not 0..(N-1), in both the API and in the 
RE syntax (and we don't have much control over the latter).

> To answer your first question: it is clearly groups that you want
> to index, just as the .group() method indexes groups.

so what should len(m) do?

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