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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"docs: re.Match.group() does handle numbers \u003e99","articleBody":"### Documentation\n\nhttps://docs.python.org/3.14/library/re.html#re.Match.group\n\u003e if it [*groupN* arg] is in the inclusive range [1..99], it is the string matching the corresponding parenthesized group.\n\nUnlike `\\1`..`\\99` notation, .group() is not constrained by 99.   \nIt was constrained up to Python 3.4 (`AssertionError: sorry, but this version only supports 100 named groups`)  \nbut not since 3.5 (9baa5b2de2e1bd4d56791de8144f737f65b89c74, https://bugs.python.org/issue22437):\n\n```\n\u003e\u003e\u003e re.search('()'*999 + '(y)', 'xy').group(99, 999, 1000)\n('', '', 'y')\n\u003e\u003e\u003e _sre.MAXGROUPS\n1073741823\n```\n\n\n\u003c!-- gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n### Linked PRs\n* gh-144696\n* gh-145065\n* gh-145066\n\u003c!-- /gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/cben","@type":"Person","name":"cben"},"datePublished":"2026-02-10T22:30:54.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/144694/cpython/issues/144694"}