How to use python regex to replace using captured group? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Off topic, For numbered capture groups:

#/usr/bin/env python
import re

re.sub(
    pattern=r'(\d)(\w+)', 
    repl='word: \\2, digit: \\1', 
    string='1asdf'
)

word: asdf, digit: 1

Python uses literal backslash, plus one-based-index to do numbered capture group replacements, as shown in this example. So \1, entered as '\\1', references the first capture group (\d), and \2 the second captured group.