What does (?P<name>) pattern syntax do?

[Ben Finney]

satishmlmlml at gmail.com writes:

> What does ?P and <part1> match in the following piece of code?

Learn about Python's regular expression features from the documentation
<URL:https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html>.

Experiment with regular expressions using online tools such as
<URL:https://pythex.org/>.

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