James Stroud mbi.ucla.edu> writes:
>
> C.L. wrote:
> > I was looking for a function or method that would return the index to the
> > first matching element in a list. ...
> > ... __please don't be overly defensive__ ...
>
> The amount of typing wasted to de
I was looking for a function or method that would return the index to the first
matching element in a list. Coming from a C++ STL background, I thought it might
be called "find". My first stop was the Sequence Types page of the Library
Reference (http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq.html); it wasn't
