On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Stef Mientki <stef.mien...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> With the following code, I would expect a result of 5 !!
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>>>> a= 'word1 word2 word3'
>>>> a.rfind(' ',7)
> 11
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> Is this a bug ?Python's documentation states: | rfind(...) | S.rfind(sub [,start [,end]]) -> int | | Return the highest index in S where substring sub is found, | such that sub is contained within s[start:end]. Optional | arguments start and end are interpreted as in slice notation. | | Return -1 on failure. "Return the highest index in S" I haven't looked at python's source code for the str object, but perhaps this is exactly what it's algorithm does! cheers James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
