"Bryan Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > The double-meaning of -1, as both an exclusive stopping bound > and an alias for the highest valid index, is just plain whacked.
I agree in this sense: the use of any int as an error return is an unPythonic *nix-Cism, which I believe was copied therefrom. Str.find is redundant with the Pythonic exception-raising str.index and I think it should be removed in Py3. Therefore, I think changing it now is untimely and changing the language because of it backwards. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
