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Author mrabarnett
Recipients akuchling, amaury.forgeotdarc, georg.brandl, jimjjewett, mark, mrabarnett, pitrou, rsc, timehorse
Date 2008-10-17.12:28:06
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Further to msg74203, I can see no reason why we can't allow duplicate
capture group names if the groups are on different branches are are thus
mutually exclusive. For example:

    (?P<name>a)|(?P<name>b)

Apart from this I think that duplicate names should continue to raise an
exception.
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2008-10-17 12:28:08mrabarnettsetrecipients: + mrabarnett, akuchling, georg.brandl, jimjjewett, amaury.forgeotdarc, pitrou, rsc, timehorse, mark
2008-10-17 12:28:07mrabarnettsetmessageid: <1224246487.72.0.809524526752.issue2636@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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