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Author	C. Y. Hollander
Recipients	C. Y. Hollander, docs@python
Date	2018-04-26.19:08:57
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Message-id	<1524769737.79.0.682650639539.issue33368@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The documentation states that match.end([group]) returns "the ind[ex] of the... end of the substring matched by group". In fact, it returns [said index] + 1, as demonstrated by the example below: s = 'example' sre = re.search('le', s) s[sre.end()] Incidentally, I don't see the logic of this behaviour, but in any case it should be correctly documented.

The documentation states that match.end([group]) returns "the ind[ex] of the... end of the substring matched by group". In fact, it returns [said index] + 1, as demonstrated by the example below:

s = 'example'
sre = re.search('le', s)
s[sre.end()]

Incidentally, I don't see the logic of this behaviour, but in any case it should be correctly documented.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2018-04-26 19:08:57	C. Y. Hollander	set	recipients: + C. Y. Hollander, docs@python
2018-04-26 19:08:57	C. Y. Hollander	set	messageid: <1524769737.79.0.682650639539.issue33368@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2018-04-26 19:08:57	C. Y. Hollander	link	issue33368 messages
2018-04-26 19:08:57	C. Y. Hollander	create