diff --git a/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py b/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py
index f2bbb4c742b..00db44cdb73 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py
@@ -1776,6 +1776,23 @@ class ElementFindTest(unittest.TestCase):
# Issue #16922
self.assertEqual(ET.XML('').findtext('empty'), '')
+ def test_find_xpath(self):
+ LINEAR_XML = '''
+
+
+
+
+
+ '''
+ e = ET.XML(LINEAR_XML)
+
+ # Test for numeric indexing and last()
+ self.assertEqual(e.find('./tag[1]').attrib['class'], 'a')
+ self.assertEqual(e.find('./tag[2]').attrib['class'], 'b')
+ self.assertEqual(e.find('./tag[last()]').attrib['class'], 'd')
+ self.assertEqual(e.find('./tag[last()-1]').attrib['class'], 'c')
+ self.assertEqual(e.find('./tag[last()-2]').attrib['class'], 'b')
+
def test_findall(self):
e = ET.XML(SAMPLE_XML)
e[2] = ET.XML(SAMPLE_SECTION)