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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-07-12 14:15:03 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-07-12 14:15:03 (GMT)
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Fix return value for m.group() for groups not in the part of the RE that
matched; reported by Paul Moore.
-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libre.tex2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libre.tex b/Doc/lib/libre.tex
index 766aab0..414f1b5 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libre.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libre.tex
@@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ the string matching the the corresponding parenthesized group. If a
group number is negative or larger than the number of groups defined
in the pattern, an \exception{IndexError} exception is raised.
If a group is contained in a part of the pattern that did not match,
-the corresponding result is \code{-1}. If a group is contained in a
+the corresponding result is \code{None}. If a group is contained in a
part of the pattern that matched multiple times, the last match is
returned.