Issue 24454: Added whatsnew entry, removed __getitem__ from match_methods. Thanks Serhiy Storchaka.

ericvsmith · ericvsmith · commit b5690864baf4 · 2016-09-11T09:50:47.000-04:00
diff --git 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
@@ -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}
 };
 
