[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > What's with the index() function of lists throwing an exception on not > found? Let's hope this is rectified in Python 3. If nothing else, add > a function that doesn't throw an exception. There are a million > situations where you can have an item not be in a list and it is not > an exception situation.
The Python string types have both the method `index()` which throws an exception and the method `find()` which implements the same behavior but returns -1 for not-found substrings. I would naively have assumed the `list` type to provide both as well, but it provides only `index()`. Anyone know the reason for this lack of parallelism? -Marshall -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
