Issue #23086: Add start and stop arguments to the Sequence.index() mixin method.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/_collections_abc.py b/Lib/_collections_abc.py
index 2f83543124..0ca7debddb 100644
--- a/Lib/_collections_abc.py
+++ b/Lib/_collections_abc.py
@@ -825,13 +825,23 @@ class Sequence(Sized, Iterable, Container):
         for i in reversed(range(len(self))):
             yield self[i]
 
-    def index(self, value):
-        '''S.index(value) -> integer -- return first index of value.
+    def index(self, value, start=0, stop=None):
+        '''S.index(value, [start, [stop]]) -> integer -- return first index of value.
            Raises ValueError if the value is not present.
         '''
-        for i, v in enumerate(self):
-            if v == value:
-                return i
+        if start is not None and start < 0:
+            start = max(len(self) + start, 0)
+        if stop is not None and stop < 0:
+            stop += len(self)
+
+        i = start
+        while stop is None or i < stop:
+            try:
+                if self[i] == value:
+                    return i
+            except IndexError:
+                break
+            i += 1
         raise ValueError
 
     def count(self, value):