>>> m = re.match(r"(w+) (w+)", "Isaac Newton, physicist")
>>> m[0] # The entire match
'Isaac Newton'
>>> m[1] # The first parenthesized subgroup.
'Isaac'
>>> m[2] # The second parenthesized subgroup.
'Newton'
>>> p = re.compile('(a(b)c)d')
>>> m = p.match('abcd')
>>> m.group(0)
'abcd'
>>> m.group(1)
'abc'
>>> m.group(2)
'b'