How to get the number of capture groups in Python regular expression?

The following code gets the number of captured groups using Python regex in given string

Example

import re
m = re.match(r"(\d)(\d)(\d)", "632")
print len(m.groups())

Output

This gives the output

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Rajendra Dharmkar

Published on 11-Jan-2018 13:36:40

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