Steve Holden asked: > Do you just go round looking for trouble? In the course of programming, yes, absolutly.
> As far as position reporting goes, it seems pretty clear that find() > will always report positive index values. In a five-character string > then -1 and 4 are effectively equivalent. > > What on earth makes you call this a bug? What you just said, versus what the doc says. > And what are you proposing that > find() should return if the substring isn't found at all? please don't > suggest it should raise an exception, as index() exists to provide that > functionality. There are a number of good options. A legal index is not one of them. -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
