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Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v2 01/25] docs: kdoc_re: add support
for groups()

Add an equivalent to re groups() method.
This is useful on debug messages.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <redacted>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <redacted>
---
 tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py

b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
index 2816bd9f90f8..19e777e2c97e 100644

--- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
+++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py

@@ -106,6 +106,13 @@ class KernRe:

         return self.last_match.group(num)

+    def groups(self):
+        """
+        Returns the group results of the last match
+        """
+
+        return self.last_match.groups()
+

 class NestedMatch:
     """
--

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