On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:04 PM, TkNeo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ofcouse try catch is going to work but in ideality the index function > should return a -1 and no way in hell crash.
It doesn't crash. It raises an exception. This is a pretty fundamental concept of python programming. If you intend to program in python, then you're going to have to deal with it. Besides, returning -1 is a bad idea. Take a look at the following: lst = [1, 2, 3] pos = lst.index(99) lst[pos] = 0 print lst What do you expect the result to be? If lst.index(99) returned -1, then lst would be [1, 2, 0], because negative indexes of a list are perfectly valid in python -- they just count from the end of the list. -- Jerry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
