"Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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?
Someone must have thought str.find was worth having, or else it wouldn't be in the library. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list