[Python-3000] Droping find/rfind? (original) (raw)

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Wed Aug 23 20:29:26 CEST 2006

On 8/23/06, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

I agree with Tim -- if we have to get rid of one of them, let's get rid of index/rindex and keep find/rfind. Catching the exception is much less convenient than testing for -1.

Could you post a simple example or two? I keep imagining things like::

index = text.index(...)
if 0 <= index:
    ... do something with index ...
else:
    ...

which looks about the same as::

try:
    index = text.index(...)
    ... do something with index ...
except ValueError:
    ...

Is it just that a lot of the else clauses are empty?

STeVe

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