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

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Thu Aug 24 07:07:29 CEST 2006

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Josiah Carlson wrote: > Given search as a potential replacement, about the only question is > whether count should default to sys.maxint or 1.

Do you think that there will be many use cases for count values other than 1 or sys.maxint? If not, it might be more sensible to have two functions, search() and searchall().

I have used str.split with counts != 1 or sys.maxint, and I would guess that there would be similar use-cases.

And while we're on this, what about list.index? Should it also be replaced with list.search or whatever as well?

To be consistant from a sequence operation perspective, I would say yes, though I have so rarely used list.index(), I'm hard-pressed to have much of an opinion.

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