Re: [Python-ideas] Default return values to int and float

On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 19:08 +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:

Guido van Rossum wrote:

...

I'm out of ideas here. But of all these, str.find is probably still the worst -- I've flagged bugs caused by it too many times to count.

Could a with-statement be used here somehow?

 with finding(x, s) as i:
     ...

Or an iterator.

for i in finding(x, s): ...