[Python-ideas] Subequence search (was: Fixing the Python 3 bytes constructor)

On Tue, Apr 1, 2014, at 9:26, Nick Coghlan wrote:

Yeah, I was mostly thinking of the change to make the search APIs accept both integers and subsequences when I wrote that. I'll try to think of a better way of wording it.

I have a mostly unrelated question. Is there a _general_ subsequence search function [that works on lists or even iterables], or is it only available for str and bytes?