[Python-3000] find -> index patch (original) (raw)

Gareth McCaughan gmccaughan at synaptics-uk.com
Thu Aug 24 16:21:11 CEST 2006

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

note that partition provides an elegant solution to an important subset of all problems addressed by find/index.

just like lexical scoping vs. default arguments and map vs. list comprehensions, it doesn't address all problems right out of the box, and shouldn't be advertised as doing that.

Sure, but partition + "in" (now that it works as an arbitrary substring test) seem to cover a very large subset of the things you'd want to do with find: enough that having only index available for the remaining cases is unlikely to hurt much (apart from the important issue of backward compatibility, but this is py3k). I'm having trouble thinking of any plausible counterexamples, though I'm sure there must be some.

-- g

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