Get named groups from a regular expression

[Peter Otten]

Florian Lindner wrote:

> 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"].

Easy, just write a regular expression to parse regular expressions ;)

(Sorry, I can't contribute something constructive, my first idea, re.DEBUG 
doesn't help)

> OR
> 
> Can I make the match object to return default values for named groups,
> even if no match was produced?