Typed named groups in regular expression

[Steve Holden]

Hugo Ferreira wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Is it possible to "automagically" coerce the named groups to python types? e.g.:
> 
>>>> type(re.match('(?P<x>\d*)', '123').groupdict()['x'])
> <type 'str'>
> 
> But what I'm looking forward is for the type to be 'int'.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Hugo Ferreira

So apply the "int()" function to the str and it will be!

regards
  Steve
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