[Python-Dev] Let's stop eating exceptions in dict lookup (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Tue May 30 07:48:50 CEST 2006

Armin Rigo wrote:

I know this. These corner cases are debatable and different answers could be seen as correct, as I think is the case for find(). My point was different: I was worrying that the recent change in str.find() would needlessly send existing and working programs into infinite loops, which can be a particularly bad kind of failure for some applications.

since "abc".find("", 0) == 0, I would have thought that a program that searched for an empty string in a loop wouldn't get anywhere at all.

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