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Sun Dec 3 21:16:39 CET 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-December/070155.html

Fredrik Lundh schrieb:
>>> 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).
>> py> m = re.match("a(b)","ab")
>> py> m.group(0)
>> 'ab'
>> py> m.group(1)
>> 'b'
> 
> 0 isn't a group, it's an alias for the full match.

So what is the proper term for the things that the .group() method
returns? According to

http://docs.python.org/lib/match-objects.html

it returns "subgroups of the match".

So the things to be indexed in this proposal are subgroups of the
match.

Regards,
Martin

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