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

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Wed Aug 23 21:07:49 CEST 2006

Steven Bethard wrote:

Could you post a simple example or two?

Josiah Carlson wrote:

index = text.find(...) if index >= 0: ... [snip] index = 0 while 1: index = text.find(..., index) if index == -1: break ...

Thanks. So with your search() function, these would be something like:

indices = text.search(pattern, count=1)
if indices:
    index, = indices
    ...

and

for index in text.search(pattern):
    ...

if I understood the proposal right.

Steve

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