Nick Coghlan wrote:
On Oct 5, 2011 10:32 AM, "Ethan Furman" wrote:
Ron Adam wrote:
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): ...
How would the case of not found be handled in either of these proposals?
By never executing the body of the loop. It's still a thoroughly unnatural API for the 0 or 1 case, though.
Let me rephrase: found = "I don't want to get into the cart!".find('z') if found >= 0: # do stuff if found else: # do stuff if not found or found = "I don't want to get into the cart!".find('n') while found >= 0: # do stuff if found found = "I don't want to get into the cart!".find('n', found+1) if found == -1: break else: print('false branch') # do stuff if not found How would we reliably get the false branch with the above proposals? ~Ethan~