Hallöchen! "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Paul Rubin" <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Str.find is redundant with the Pythonic exception-raising >>> str.index and I think it should be removed in Py3. >> >> I like having it available so you don't have to clutter your code >> with try/except if the substring isn't there. But it should not >> return a valid integer index. > > The try/except pattern is a pretty basic part of Python's design. > One could say the same about clutter for *every* function or > method that raises an exception on invalid input. Should more or > even all be duplicated? Why just this one? Granted, try/except can be used for deliberate case discrimination (which may even happen in the standard library in many places), however, it is only the second most elegant method -- the most elegant being "if". Where "if" does the job, it should be prefered in my opinion. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus ICQ 264-296-646 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
