From 843eaeedbdbe631f973b76e66230443851e51c8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rupayon Haldar <80724680+rupayon123@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:28:40 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Format signed integers inside ANSI color sequences

---
 tabulate/__init__.py |  6 ++++--
 test/test_output.py  | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tabulate/__init__.py b/tabulate/__init__.py
index 12a2950..76f87f8 100644
--- a/tabulate/__init__.py
+++ b/tabulate/__init__.py
@@ -1321,12 +1321,14 @@ def _format(val, valtype, floatfmt, intfmt, missingval="", has_invisible=True):
     elif valtype is int:
         if isinstance(val, str):
             val_striped = val.encode("unicode_escape").decode("utf-8")
-            colored = re.search(r"(\\[xX]+[0-9a-fA-F]+\[\d+[mM]+)([0-9.]+)(\\.*)$", val_striped)
+            colored = re.search(
+                r"(\\[xX]+[0-9a-fA-F]+\[\d+[mM]+)([-+]?[0-9.]+)(\\.*)$", val_striped
+            )
             if colored:
                 total_groups = len(colored.groups())
                 if total_groups == 3:
                     digits = colored.group(2)
-                    if digits.isdigit():
+                    if digits.isdigit() or (intfmt and digits.lstrip("+-").isdigit()):
                         val_new = colored.group(1) + format(int(digits), intfmt) + colored.group(3)
                         val = val_new.encode("utf-8").decode("unicode_escape")
             intfmt = ""
diff --git a/test/test_output.py b/test/test_output.py
index ea3da87..76a4ea6 100644
--- a/test/test_output.py
+++ b/test/test_output.py
@@ -2871,6 +2871,38 @@ def test_intfmt_with_colors():
     assert_equal(expected, formatted)
 
 
+@mark.parametrize(
+    ("value", "intfmt", "expected"),
+    [
+        ("-1234", ",", "-1,234"),
+        ("+1234", "+,", "+1,234"),
+        ("-1234", "#x", "-0x4d2"),
+        ("+1234", "#x", "0x4d2"),
+        ("1234", ",", "1,234"),
+        ("0", ",", "0"),
+    ],
+)
+def test_intfmt_with_signed_colors(value, intfmt, expected):
+    "Integer formatting preserves ANSI colors around signed values."
+    colored = f"\x1b[31m{value}\x1b[0m"
+    result = tabulate([[colored]], intfmt=intfmt, tablefmt="plain")
+    assert_equal(f"\x1b[31m{expected}\x1b[0m", result)
+
+
+@mark.parametrize("value", ["+1234", "-001234", "-0"])
+def test_signed_colors_without_intfmt(value):
+    "An omitted format retains signed colored text as supplied."
+    colored = f"\x1b[31m{value}\x1b[0m"
+    assert_equal(colored, tabulate([[colored]], tablefmt="plain"))
+
+
+def test_signed_colors_without_column_intfmt():
+    "A column without a requested format retains its signed colored text."
+    colored = "\x1b[31m+1234\x1b[0m"
+    result = tabulate([[1234, colored]], intfmt=[","], tablefmt="plain")
+    assert_equal(f"1,234  {colored}", result)
+
+
 def test_empty_data_with_headers():
     "Output: table with empty data and headers as firstrow"
     expected = ""