[issue4882] Behavior of backreferences to named groups in regular expressions unclear

alec resnick added the comment: Hi Georg! Sorry to be so long in getting back to you. I've attached a suggested patch for the python-2.6.1-docs-text/library/re.txt documentation. Also, in looking over Kuchling's HOWTO, the necessary information is actually there, and I just was

[issue4882] Behavior of backreferences to named groups in regular expressions unclear

New submission from alec resnick : I recently learned about named groups in Python regular expressions. Almost all the documentation I've found online explains what they are and give a simple example of how to use them. I was trying to use the variables outside of the original regex, lat