Antoon Pardon wrote: > I think a properly implented find is better than an index.
See the current thread in python-dev[1], which proposes a new method, str.partition(). I believe that Raymond Hettinger has shown that almost all uses of str.find() can be more clearly be represented with his proposed function. STeVe [1]http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-August/055781.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list