Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: There is two reasons for this limitation. First reason is mentioned by David. There is no syntax to backreference a group with number > 99 (but there is a syntax for conditional groups and for substitutions). Second reason is that current implementation of regexp engine uses an array of constant size for groups.
Here is a patch which increases static limit to 1000 groups. It also allows to specify arbitrary group number in form of "(?P=number)". This is conformed to the syntax of conditional groups and for substitutions. ---------- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file36654/re_maxgroups.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22437> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
