[Python-Dev] string.find() again (was Re: timsort for jython)

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "A" == Aahz  <aahz@pythoncraft.com> writes:

    A> Well, of course it can't be changed, but if Tim of all people
    A> made that mistake, I think it's a good indicator that
    A> something's wrong.  I believe the suggestion has been made to
    A> add an exists() method or something similar; it's probably
    A> better to have that in the core under some standard name
    A> instead of each person who needs it implementing the one-liner
    A> under different names.

What about extending `in' to allow strings longer than a single
character?  E.g.

>>> 'lo' in 'hello world'

?  That seems like the most natural way to want to spell it, and is an
extension of what you can already do.
-Barry