What's the difference between groups and group in the re module?

Question

Here it is:

import re
>>>s = \'abc -j k -l m\'
>>>m = re.search(\'-\\w+ \\w+\', s)
>>>m.groups()
()
>>> m.group(0)
\'-j k\'
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Answer 1

Your regex has no match groups, indicated by parens ((...)).