From: Eric V. Smith <eric@trueblade.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 13:50:47 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Issue 24454: Added whatsnew entry, removed __getitem__ from match_methods. Thanks... 
X-Git-Tag: v3.6.0b1~46
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b5690864baf4fce678d80639a6ed9e239bc0065a;p=python

Issue 24454: Added whatsnew entry, removed __getitem__ from match_methods. Thanks Serhiy Storchaka.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
index a3f216f507..d0aad49797 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 e4372bedb6..a25d935a20 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}
 };