Matched groups in (DEFINE) block do not appear when groupdict() is called

[mrabarnett]

Original report by Vilius Poška (Bitbucket: poskadesign, GitHub: poskadesign).

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Hey,

I encounter some weird behaviour when running this code:

regex.match(r"""
(?(DEFINE)
    (?<w>\w+)
)
(?&w)
""", 'hey', regex.X | regex.V1)

The pattern matches but after calling groupdict() the match object returns {'w': None}. Is this the correct behaviour?

P.S. using Python 3.6.1 (v3.6.1:69c0db5, Mar 21 2017, 18:41:36) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] and regex 2016.6.23

[mrabarnett]

Original comment by Matthew Barnett (Bitbucket: mrabarnett, GitHub: mrabarnett).

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It's more like a function definition than a capture group, so I'm going to leave it as-is.

[mrabarnett]

Original comment by Matthew Barnett (Bitbucket: mrabarnett, GitHub: mrabarnett).

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Issue #252 was marked as a duplicate of this issue.