* Mattias Ugelvik <ugle...@gmail.com> in comp.lang.python: > I'm making a string manipulation tool in which I need to know this > correlation. > Take this example: re.match('(?P<first>a?)(?P<second>b?)', '') > I need to know that 'first' is group #1, and 'second' is group #2. > I need this to resolve certain ambiguities.
Building a mapping between the results of groups and groupdict on the match object should be quite straightforward. -- DW -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list