On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:31:06 +0000, jelle wrote:
> if I check a string for for a substring, and this substring isn't found,
> should't the .find method return 0 rather than -1?
> this breaks the
>
> if check.find('something'):
> do(somethingElse)
>
> idiom, which is a bit of a pity I think.
And what should ``'string'.find('str')`` return? How do you distinguish
the not found at all case from the found at the very beginning case!?
The simple test you want can be written this way:
if 'something' in check:
do(something_else)
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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