[issue24454] Improve the usability of the match object named group API

[Matthew Barnett]

Matthew Barnett added the comment:

I agree that it would be nice if len(mo) == len(mo.groups()), but Serhiy has explained why that's not the case in the regex module.

The regex module does support mo[name], so:

  print('Located coordinate at (%(row)s, %(col)s)' % mo)
  print('Located coordinate at ({row}, {col})'.format_map(mo))

already work.

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