While testing recursive algoritms dealing with generic lists I stumbled
on infinite loops which were triggered by the fact that (at least for my
version of Pyton) characters contain themselves.See session:
system prompt% python
Python 2.3.5 (#2, Feb 9 2005, 00:38:15)
[GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5
gry@ll.mit.edu wrote:
> In fact, not just characters, but strings contain themselves:
>
>
'abc' in 'abc'
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> True
>
> This is a very nice(i.e. clear and concise) shortcut for:
>
>
'the rain in spain stays mainly'.find('rain') != -1
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> True
>
> Which I always found contorted and a
