Chris Rebert wrote: [didn't see the original message]
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Stef Mientki <stef.mien...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> With the following code, I would expect a result of 5 !! >> >>>>> a= 'word1 word2 word3' >>>>> a.rfind(' ',7) >> 11 >> >> Is this a bug ? > > No. Don't you think someone would have found such an obvious bug by now? Indeed. OP: you may be looking for >>> a = "a bb ccc" >>> a[::-1].find(" ") 3 Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list