diff --git a/Modules/_sre/sre.c b/Modules/_sre/sre.c
index e33034086481c2..0c656b47991c2f 100644
--- a/Modules/_sre/sre.c
+++ b/Modules/_sre/sre.c
@@ -2217,6 +2217,8 @@ match_getindex(MatchObject* self, PyObject* index)
         return -1;
     }
 
+    // Check that i*2 cannot overflow to make static analyzers happy
+    assert(i <= SRE_MAXGROUPS);
     return i;
 }