jelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the subject pretty much says it all. > 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?
How would you treat the case of 'something' being at the beginning of the string? After all, find returns the index. > this breaks the > > if check.find('something'): > do(somethingElse) > > idiom, which is a bit of a pity I think. if 'something' in check: do(somethingElse) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list