Improved error msg when a symbolic group name is redefined. Added docs
and NEWS. Bugfix candidate? That's a dilemma for Anthony <wink>: /F
did fix a longstanding bug here, but the fix can cause code to raise an
exception that previously worked by accident.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ba2f679..02c4928 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@
Library
+- Symbolic group names in regular expressions must be unique. For
+ example, the regexp r'(?P<abc>)(?P<abc>)' is not allowed, because a
+ single name can't mean both "group 1" and "group 2" simultaneously.
+ Python 2.2 detects this error at regexp compilation time; previously,
+ the error went undetected, and results were unpredictable.
+
- Tix exposes more commands through the classes DirSelectBox,
DirSelectDialog, ListNoteBook, Meter, CheckList, and the
methods tix_addbitmapdir, tix_cget, tix_configure, tix_filedialog,