"Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Really it's x[-1]'s behavior that should go, not find/rfind. > > I complete disagree, x[-1] as an abbreviation of x[len(x)-1] is extremely > useful, especially when 'x' is an expression instead of a name.
There are other abbreviations possible, for example the one in the proposed PEP at the beginning of this thread. > But even > if -1 were not a legal subscript, I would still consider it a design error > for Python to mistype a non-numeric singleton indicator as an int. OK, .find should return None if the string is not found. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
