"Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The fact that the -1 return *has* lead to bugs in actual code is the > primary reason Guido has currently decided that find and rfind should go. > A careful review of current usages in the standard library revealed at > least a couple bugs even there.
Really it's x[-1]'s behavior that should go, not find/rfind. Will socket.connect_ex also go? How about dict.get? Being able to return some reasonable value for "failure" is a good thing, if failure is expected. Exceptions are for unexpected, i.e., exceptional failures. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
