"Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:09:36 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: | | > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | > | >> What's with the index() function of lists throwing an exception on not | >> found? | > | > It's letting you know that the item isn't in the list. There's no | > sensible return value from an "index" function in that condition. | | What about -1? C programmers do this all the time. :-)
Because they do not have exceptions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
