Meaning of ?P in string pattern

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#1

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https://app.dataquest.io/m/346/working-with-strings-in-pandas/10/extracting-more-than-one-group-of-patterns-from-a-series

My Code:
pattern = r"(?P<First_Year>[1-2][0-9]{3})/?(?P<Second_Year>[0-9]{2})?"

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What I expected to happen:

What actually happened:

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what is the meaning of ?P<First_Year> ? I don’t understand why we need it to solve the problem ?

#2

I would recommend first going through, in detail, the previous Step of that same Mission. It explains what ?P<...> is.

#3

Kindly check this link(Named capturing group concept)