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  Re: Get named groups from a regular expression MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-07-01 17:53 +0100

#73797 — Re: Get named groups from a regular expression

On 2014-07-01 16:12, Florian Lindner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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"].
>
> OR
>
> Can I make the match object to return default values for named groups, even
> if no match was produced?
>
>>> import re
>>> r = re.compile(r"(?P<testgrp>\d)")
>>> r.groupindex
{'testgrp': 1}

i.e. there's a named group called 'testgrp' whose group number is 1.

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