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  Re: Get named groups from a regular expression Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-07-01 17:29 +0200

#73794 — Re: Get named groups from a regular expression

Florian Lindner wrote:

> Is there a way I can extract the named groups from a regular expression?
> e.g. given "(?P<testgrp>\d)" I want to get something like ["testgrp"].

Easy, just write a regular expression to parse regular expressions ;)

(Sorry, I can't contribute something constructive, my first idea, re.DEBUG 
doesn't help)

> OR
> 
> Can I make the match object to return default values for named groups,
> even if no match was produced?

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