From e3a985fe9aaa55088cf3cb03244949c72f8aaed9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Wouters <thomas@python.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:17:50 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Make sre's SubPattern objects accept slice objects like it
 already accepts simple slices.

---
 Lib/sre_parse.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/sre_parse.py b/Lib/sre_parse.py
index 319bf43b33f..e63f2acbb40 100644
--- a/Lib/sre_parse.py
+++ b/Lib/sre_parse.py
@@ -134,6 +134,8 @@ class SubPattern:
     def __delitem__(self, index):
         del self.data[index]
     def __getitem__(self, index):
+        if isinstance(index, slice):
+            return SubPattern(self.pattern, self.data[index])
         return self.data[index]
     def __setitem__(self, index, code):
         self.data[index] = code