6 May
2009
6 May
'09
6:03 a.m.
On Wed, 6 May 2009 02:27:18 pm Terry Reedy wrote:
Carl Johnson wrote:
Would there be any interest in adding a 'reversed' kwarg to the relevant string methods, deprecating the r-methods in Python 3.2, and removing them in Python 3.3? It might make things a little simpler and unclutter the dir for strings a bit…
I personally would strongly prefer a reverse keyward and would not mind de-cluttering the current set of methods too.
Do you have any use-cases where you don't know whether you want forward or reverse search until runtime? That is, where you currently write something like: if some_var: n = astring.find(target) else: n = astring.rfind(target) or equivalent? -- Steven D'Aprano