re.finditer and re.findall should support negative end positions

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

Start by reviewing issue7940.patch and linked PR gh-107105, then inspect the existing re.finditer and re.findall implementation and documentation. Done means the two APIs consistently support negative end positions and the related behavior is documented.

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Description

3.9 (EOL) docs topic-regex type-feature
BPO 7940
Nosy @rhettinger, @ezio-melotti, @zware, @serhiy-storchaka, @anilbey
PRs
  • python/cpython#14744
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    Files
  • issue7940.patch
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    GitHub fields:

    assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2010-02-16.14:04:33.871>
labels = ['type-feature', '3.9', 'docs']
title = 're.finditer and re.findall should support negative end positions'
updated_at = <Date 2019-09-09.16:55:47.901>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/tlynn'

    bugs.python.org fields:

    activity = <Date 2019-09-09.16:55:47.901>
actor = 'serhiy.storchaka'
assignee = 'docs@python'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Documentation']
creation = <Date 2010-02-16.14:04:33.871>
creator = 'tlynn'
dependencies = []
files = ['30377']
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 7940
keywords = ['patch']
message_count = 15.0
messages = ['99411', '99456', '189882', '189885', '190041', '190101', '190121', '347852', '347913', '347915', '347918', '347958', '347997', '351530', '351534']
nosy_count = 9.0
nosy_names = ['rhettinger', 'tlynn', 'timehorse', 'ezio.melotti', 'mrabarnett', 'docs@python', 'zach.ware', 'serhiy.storchaka', 'anilbey']
pr_nums = ['14744']
priority = 'low'
resolution = None
stage = 'patch review'
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue7940'
versions = ['Python 3.9']

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