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-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst4
-rw-r--r--Modules/_sre.c1
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
index a3f216f..d0aad49 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
@@ -724,6 +724,10 @@ Added support of modifier spans in regular expressions. Examples:
``'(?i)g(?-i:v)r'`` matches ``'GvR'`` and ``'gvr'``, but not ``'GVR'``.
(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`433028`.)
+Match object groups can be accessed by ``__getitem__``, which is
+equivalent to ``group()``. So ``mo['name']`` is now equivalent to
+``mo.group('name')``. (Contributed by Eric Smith in :issue:`24454`.)
+
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diff --git a/Modules/_sre.c b/Modules/_sre.c
index e4372be..a25d935 100644
--- a/Modules/_sre.c
+++ b/Modules/_sre.c
@@ -2733,7 +2733,6 @@ static PyMethodDef match_methods[] = {
_SRE_SRE_MATCH_EXPAND_METHODDEF
_SRE_SRE_MATCH___COPY___METHODDEF
_SRE_SRE_MATCH___DEEPCOPY___METHODDEF
- {"__getitem__", (PyCFunction)match_getitem, METH_O|METH_COEXIST, match_getitem_doc},
{NULL, NULL}
};