Issue #27177: Match objects in the re module now support index-like objects

as group indices.  Based on patches by Jeroen Demeyer and Xiang Zhang.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Modules/_sre.c b/Modules/_sre.c
index fb0ab033c5..d379363729 100644
--- a/Modules/_sre.c
+++ b/Modules/_sre.c
@@ -2049,8 +2049,9 @@ match_getindex(MatchObject* self, PyObject* index)
         /* Default value */
         return 0;
 
-    if (PyLong_Check(index))
-        return PyLong_AsSsize_t(index);
+    if (PyIndex_Check(index)) {
+        return PyNumber_AsSsize_t(index, NULL);
+    }
 
     i = -1;