SRE_match.__getitem__?

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

I just wondered... Would it be useful to add __getitem__
to the match objects returned by re, so one could do
things like:

>>> m = re.match('f(oo)', 'foobar')
>>> m[0]
'foo'
>>> m[1]
'oo'

I guess it would only be something like

   def __getitem__(self, number):
       return self.group(numnber)

(Only in C, and with some exception translation or
something.)

Maybe it's worthless -- it just seems practical to me.

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