"Paul Rubin" <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "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.
Well, Guido no longer thinks it worth having and emphatically agreed that it should be added to one of the 'To be removed' sections of PEP 3000. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
