[Python-3000] Droping find/rfind?

[BJörn Lindqvist]

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