Issues with Python 2.2. regex

[Fredrik Lundh]

Jürgen Hermann wrote:
> Given this:
>
> (?P<heading>^\s*(?P<hmarker>=+)\s.*\s(?P=hmarker) $)
>
> Python 2.2 reports groups for the nested named parens, while previous
> versions do not. If this is unexpected, I'll isolate this effect in a little
> script.

what previous versions did you try this on?  if I apply the above
expression to the string "=== hello === ", groupdict() returns the
same dictionary for all versions I have installed (1.5.2 through 2.2)

    {
        'hmarker': '===',
        'heading': '=== hello === '
    }

what did you get?

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