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gh-144694: Fix re.Match.group() doc claiming [1..99] range limit (#144696)
The documentation incorrectly stated that numeric group arguments must be in the range [1..99]. This limit was removed in Python 3.5 (bpo-22437). Replace with "a positive integer" since the next sentence already documents the IndexError for out-of-range values.
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@@ -1434,10 +1434,10 @@ when there is no match, you can test whether there was a match with a simple
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result is a single string; if there are multiple arguments, the result is a
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tuple with one item per argument. Without arguments, *group1* defaults to zero
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(the whole match is returned). If a *groupN* argument is zero, the corresponding
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return value is the entire matching string; if it is in the inclusive range
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[1..99], it is the string matching the corresponding parenthesized group. If a
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group number is negative or larger than the number of groups defined in the
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pattern, an :exc:`IndexError` exception is raised. If a group is contained in a
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return value is the entire matching string; if it is a positive integer, it is
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the string matching the corresponding parenthesized group. If a group number is
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negative or larger than the number of groups defined in the pattern, an
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:exc:`IndexError` exception is raised. If a group is contained in a
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part of the pattern that did not match, the corresponding result is ``None``.
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If a group is contained in a part of the pattern that matched multiple times,
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the last match is returned. ::

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