Istvan Albert wrote: > Carl Banks wrote: > > > Say you're using a function from a third-party library that finds the > > first character in a string that meets some requirement. You need to > > find the last such character. > > You seem to imply that invoking a function on a reversed input is > somehow a generic solution to the problem (finding first vs finding > last) that you describe above above.
Nope, I wasn't. > That would be the exception rather than the rule. Oh, don't be such a Debbie Downer. The rule is, it works as long as the character you're looking for isn't relative to any other character in the string. (Geez, I was just giving a counterexample.) Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
