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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1995-02-27 17:52:35 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1995-02-27 17:52:35 (GMT)
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document restriction on group names
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-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libregex.tex3
-rw-r--r--Doc/libregex.tex3
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libregex.tex b/Doc/lib/libregex.tex
index f3df684..10abece 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libregex.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libregex.tex
@@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ parentheses-enclosed group begins with a group name in angular
brackets, e.g. \code{'\e(<id>[a-z][a-z0-9]*\e)'}, the group can
be referenced by its name in arguments to the \code{group} method of
the resulting compiled regular expression object, like this:
-\code{p.group('id')}.
+\code{p.group('id')}. Group names may contain alphanumeric characters
+and \code{'_'} only.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{excdesc}{error}
diff --git a/Doc/libregex.tex b/Doc/libregex.tex
index f3df684..10abece 100644
--- a/Doc/libregex.tex
+++ b/Doc/libregex.tex
@@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ parentheses-enclosed group begins with a group name in angular
brackets, e.g. \code{'\e(<id>[a-z][a-z0-9]*\e)'}, the group can
be referenced by its name in arguments to the \code{group} method of
the resulting compiled regular expression object, like this:
-\code{p.group('id')}.
+\code{p.group('id')}. Group names may contain alphanumeric characters
+and \code{'_'} only.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{excdesc}{error}