Bug fixed accessing BaseList with negative indices

AUTHORS

@@ -236,3 +236,4 @@ that much better:
  * Luo Peng (https://github.com/RussellLuo)
  * Bryan Bennett (https://github.com/bbenne10)
  * Gilb's Gilb's (https://github.com/gilbsgilbs)
+ * Joshua Nedrud (https://github.com/Neurostack)

docs/changelog.rst

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Changes in 0.10.7 - DEV
 - count on ListField of EmbeddedDocumentField fails. #1187
 - Fixed long fields stored as int32 in Python 3. #1253
 - MapField now handles unicodes keys correctly. #1267
+- ListField now handles negative indicies correctly. #1270
 
 Changes in 0.10.6
 =================

mongoengine/base/datastructures.py

@@ -199,7 +199,8 @@ def sort(self, *args, **kwargs):
     def _mark_as_changed(self, key=None):
         if hasattr(self._instance, '_mark_as_changed'):
             if key:
-                self._instance._mark_as_changed('%s.%s' % (self._name, key))
+                self._instance._mark_as_changed('%s.%s' % (self._name, 
+                    key % len(self)))
             else:
                 self._instance._mark_as_changed(self._name)
 

tests/fields/fields.py

@@ -1160,6 +1160,19 @@ class Simple(Document):
         simple = simple.reload()
         self.assertEqual(simple.widgets, [4])
 
+    def test_list_field_with_negative_indices(self):
+
+        class Simple(Document):
+            widgets = ListField()
+
+        simple = Simple(widgets=[1, 2, 3, 4]).save()
+        simple.widgets[-1] = 5
+        self.assertEqual(['widgets.3'], simple._changed_fields)
+        simple.save()
+
+        simple = simple.reload()
+        self.assertEqual(simple.widgets, [1, 2, 3, 5])
+
     def test_list_field_complex(self):
         """Ensure that the list fields can handle the complex types."""