From: Tom Pollard <tomp@...>
Date: 2006-09-30T21:45:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp help


On Sep 30, 2006, at 2:55 AM, Relm wrote:
>> As far as I know, you can only do that in C#, which has named  
>> capturing
>> groups. In all the other languages I know, the capturing groups are
>> numbered when they are found... That rules it out.

Python regexps have named capturing groups.  It's extremely helpful  
if you need to construct complicated patterns; because the index of  
each capturing group can eaasily change when you add and remove  
things in the regexp.

Tom