[Python-ideas] Python 2's re module should take longs

[Ryan Gonzalez]

This works:

re.search('(abc)', 'abc').group(1)

but this doesn't:

re.search('(abc)', 'abc').group(1L)

The latter raises "IndexError: no such group". Shouldn't that technically
work?

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