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Author malin
Recipients Anthony Sottile, dom1310df, ezio.melotti, gvanrossum, malin, mrabarnett, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner
Date 2022-04-05.04:26:39
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> cryptic name

In very early versions, "mark" was called register/region.
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v1.0.1/Modules/regexpr.h#L48-L52

If span is accessed repeatedly, it's faster than Match.span().
Maybe consider renaming it, and make it as public attribute.
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