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

BJörn Lindqvist bjourne at gmail.com
Wed Aug 23 23:01:23 CEST 2006


On 8/23/06, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote:

or even

index = 0 while 1: index = text.find(..., index) if index == -1: break ... compared with index = 0 while 1: try: index = text.index(..., index) except ValueError: break ...

You are supposed to use the in operator:

index = 0 while 1: if not "something" in text[index:]: break

IMHO, removing find() is good because index() does the same job without violating the Samurai Principle (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SamuraiPrinciple). It would be interesting to see the patch that replaced find() with index(), did it really make the code more cumbersome?

-- mvh Björn



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