[issue22437] re module: number of named groups is limited to 100 max

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray added the comment:

It is 100 to avoid a syntactic ambiguity between numbered groups and octal numbers, if I remember correctly.  I can't remember if that constraint still applies in python3, where the octal notation was made more strict in general.

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