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authorR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2013-04-14 17:00:54 (GMT)
committerR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2013-04-14 17:00:54 (GMT)
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#17341: Include name in re error message about invalid group name.
Patch by Jason Michalski.
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/sre_parse.py')
-rw-r--r--Lib/sre_parse.py5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/sre_parse.py b/Lib/sre_parse.py
index 2ebce89..9e0501f 100644
--- a/Lib/sre_parse.py
+++ b/Lib/sre_parse.py
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ def _parse(source, state):
if not name:
raise error("missing group name")
if not name.isidentifier():
- raise error("bad character in group name")
+ raise error("bad character in group name %r" % name)
elif sourcematch("="):
# named backreference
name = ""
@@ -614,7 +614,8 @@ def _parse(source, state):
if not name:
raise error("missing group name")
if not name.isidentifier():
- raise error("bad character in group name")
+ raise error("bad character in backref group name "
+ "%r" % name)
gid = state.groupdict.get(name)
if gid is None:
raise error("unknown group name")