korean_dave wrote: > stringa = "hi" > stringb = "hiyoooo" > > I'd like it to return -1 when I do: > > returnVal = stringa.find(stringb); > > Instead, it treats stringa as "hi" and stringb as "hi". >
No it doesn't. stringb is "hiyoooo" and it "treats" it that way. (And just what do you mean by "treat"?) > How do I solve this? > There is nothing to solve. The expression stringa.find(stringb) asks if "hi" contains "hiyoooo", and since it does not, it returns a -1 indicating so. You'll have to describe what you expected and why you expected it before we will be able to see a problem that needs solving. (And then the problem will most likely be in your expectations, not in the find method.) Gary Herron > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
