On Mar 21, 2013 1:35 PM, "leonardo selmi" <l.se...@icloud.com> wrote: > > hi all, > > i wrote the following code: > > def find(word, letter): > index = 0 > while index < len(word): > if word[index] == letter: > return index > index = index + 1 > return -1 >
More efficient: def find(word, letter): return word.find(letter) Or even: find = str.find Cheers, Ian
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