Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> 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. > > Practically speaking, what difference would it make? Supposing find returned None for not-found. How would you use it in your code that would make it superior to what happens now? In either case you would have to test for the not-found state before relying on the index returned, wouldn't you? Or do you have a use that would eliminate that step? -- rzed -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
