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@njwhite
You mean parentheses, like '(' and ')', I think.

The parse module needs to be aware how many groups are in the regex-pattern for user-defined types. This is a functionality that is currently missing in parse. The parse_type has a drop-in replacement for the parse module with this functionality. This is needed to be able to compose generic types and their patterns with parse.

from parse_type import parse
def a(a):
    return a
a.pattern = '((3))'
a.group_count = 2
...

@r1chardj0n3s
Maybe it make senses to add this functionality to parse ?
Otherwise, the group count could be discovered from the user-type pattern expression (maybe) ?!?

SEE ALSO:

• https://github.com/jenisys/parse_type/blob/master/parse_type/parse.py#L902

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Yeah, if parse_type has solved this issue (I'm not actually sure what it is, at first glance, sorry!) then absolutely, the functionality should be added to parse! I've been meaning to ask about what features in parse_type should be core to parse, but keep getting side-tracked... sorry!!!

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from parse.

Thanks for the patch @jenisys! I've made some notes (from my work account because I've struggled to find free time to look into this stuff, sorry for the slow response).

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