M. Anil Tuncel added the comment:
I guess the use of negative indices serve the same purpose here as in lists or
strings.
Though as Ezio pointed out, the current behaviour is already accepting negative
indices but providing inconsistent results in comparison to various other
Python modules that support negative indices.
In my opinion:
If the negative indices are to be used here (which is what the current
implementation suggests), they should behave in the same way as the rest of the
Python modules.
Otherwise, perhaps negative indices should not be allowed here at all.
What do you think?
P.S. this patch is already applied to the regex module by @mrabarnett
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nosy: +anilbey
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